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GREEN'S HISTORICAL SERIES 

RARLY DAYS IN KANSAS 

ALONG THE SANTA FE TRAIL, IN THE 

COUNTIES OF DOUGLAS, FRANKLIN, 

SHAWNEE, OSAGE AND LYON. 




THE GRANDSON **QUENEMO" 

* The one standing 

With Fellow Tribesmen at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania School 




MARY MITCHELL MEANS SARAH GOODELL WHISTLER 

A Goodell Family Group 




Mrs. Fannie Whistler Nedeau of Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma, and 
son, Guy Whistler, taken about 1906 in Indian garb. 



GREEN'S HISTORICAL SERIES 

EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS 

Pioneer Narratives of the First Twentv-five 
Years of Kansas History. 



HISTORY GIVEN OF SOMK OF TIIK SAC AND FOX INDI VNS 

ILLUSTRATED WITH MArsY PORTRAITS OF 
PIONEERS AND INDIANS 



Leida Saylor's Story 

The Old Sauk Indian, Quenemo 

Henry Hudson Wiggans' Narrative 



INDIAN PAMPHLET NUMBER ONE 



CHARLES R. GREEN 

July. 1912 Olathe, Kansas 



MORE EARLY DAY HISTORY BY ONE OF THE FOXES. 

Rev. .lared Fox preached some time for the Presbyterian Church at 
Lyndon. His son Elliott H. Fox in his duties as a deputy county officer along 
about 1872 seems to have been married there May 1, 1872 by his father to 
Leida Saylor, who, while a resident of Lyndon, was one of the county teachers 
Elliott H. Fox and wife's name are on the Lyndon Presby. Church Roll. 
Some years later they removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where Mr. Fox has lived 
since, engaged in the commercial work. When preparing my history of the 
Sac & Fox Indians and their days at Quenemo I learned that Miss Leida 
Saylor taught the first public school in Quenemo. I wrote to her for her nar- 
rative of that early day — 1869 and '70 — before the Indians had all been re- 
moved. While the story has but little to do with Ridgeway, yet not having 
been printed yet, I introduce it here to show the reader a history of that sec- 
tion then. (C. R. G.) 

LEIDA SAYLOR'S NARRATIVE. 

In the fall of 1869 my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bales, sold their farm, 
6 miles north of Des Moines, Iowa, and with four of their youngest children 
and families, bid good bye to Iowa and sought homes in Osage Co., Kansas. 
There were three other families joined the company and I was invited to take 
the trip with them and as it was to be overland I gladly acceptel, having 
often heard my father and mother tell of their trip by wagon from Indiana. 
There were many pleasing features but also many disagreeable ones, such as 
sticking in clay on some of the Missouri hills but the pelasanr, days with the 
ever new sceneries and the pleasant anticipations of a lovely spot to pitch our 
tent, swing on the big pots over camp fires and the gathering around ihe even- 
ing meal to talk over our different views and experiences of the day and the 
rest we enjoyed either in some beautiful grove or high rolling prairie (which 
I enjoyed more than the groves, especially in the evenings, as I had lived all 
my life in the heavy timber along the Des Moines river and it seemed as 
if the moon had never shone so brightly as those evenings and thoso Kansas 
breezes were something new to us all. 

It was one beautiful evening in Otcober that our Tvaiii of s or Id cnvei-oii 
wagons drew n\) in front of Mr. Knoughs, north of Salt Creek, and S. \V, or 
(Juenemo. After a pitched camp and rest of a day or twj Vlr Halo.s and hi?- 
families moves down into some stone houses near the Mara is des Cygm-s. 
Mr. William S, Fislier (who was buried last Wednesikiv l and Ins Mtrle daueh 



ler had hauled a load of household goods for Mr. Mules, atier s|)erHlin^ a 
week looking over the country, expected to start back to Iowa Tuesday and I 
tv was to accompany them, having only asked for a six veeka vacation As we 
• sat around those great cheerful fire places, one in each room, we already be- 
^C ?an saying what we wanted before i)arting. Mr. .lake Hales, who vv'as on a 
1*? visit from Denver, Colo., to his parents in Iowa, accomjjanied us on the trip, 
ts thinking perhaps he ought to stay and help his father and mother locate, 
l)roposed that it would be a fine thing for my health if I would spend the 
winter with them. After some deliberation I decided if I could get some- 
thing to do. so as not to be an expense to anyone. I would be only too glad, as 
I thought I had never seen such sunsets, such an Indian summer or Fall, 
never nicer was known, and those tall grasses, high as a man's shoulders on 
horseback. So on Monday morning immediately after breakfast Uncle went 
to town (Quenemo) and in less than two hours was back with the word to 
get my hat on and go down and see if I would like what he had found for me. 
In a very short time I was sitting in the parlor of Mr. Whistler's home, 
learned how anxious he was to have a successful school and school methods 
established and 1 entered into the idea very heartily and in two hours more 
I was signed for 4 months school, to commence the next Monday, but I 
frankly admit that when we (Uncle and I) went out to the wagon to go back 
to our stone hut, 1 was almost sorry, for I was startled to see many Indians 
stalking around, since I had always been taught to be afraid of them. Next 
Sunday eve found trunk and me domiciled in Mr. Whistler's home and Monday 
morning at 9 o'clock 1 called to order perhaps 15 to 20 pupils and such a 
mixture, whites, half Indian, and a few full bloods and two little lone negroes. 
I put all the energy and Chirtsianity in it possible and felt a new field was 
opened up to me and could perhaps see the result of my labor in shorter time 
than here in old organized districts and we were all getting on pretty fiiendly 
terms when to my utter astonishment, the third or fourth morning, in walked 
four big Indians and now and also after I learned them, I knew they were as 
much astonished as myself, for they hesitated, looked from face to face and 
then planted themselves down on either side of the big slove and decided to 
take ih the situation. Then si>ying Leo Whistler, they began questioning 
him, but hewas so small he hardly knew how to tell them, and do you ask 
what I was doing all this time? Just did manage to get to my chair behind 
desk without falling and "was frozen stiff with fear." They surely did not at 
that first call find in me a very genial hostess, 1 did not move nor speak and 
soon as they were gone I collected myself enough tn say: "Be dismissed till 



alter dinner." I could scarcely swallow a mouthful of dinner, but Leo had 
told his papa of our visitors, so you see I did not have to enter complaint, but 
he (Mr. W.) understood and told me to pay no attention but for several weeks 
I had few strange callers and finally mustered up courage enough to tell him 
that I wished he would get some one to take my place, but not a bit of it 
would he listen to, but called a council meeting and had as many together as 
possible and sent w^ord to the rest of what was being done. You see our 
school was in their council room and on their coming into town and seeing 
big smoke comig from chimney very naturally concluded there was business 
on hand and as they were to be moved to Indian Territory soon and as many 
of them were loath to give up their homes, of course they expected to be 
posted in the affairs. After they fully understood matters I often noticed a 
twinkle in their eyes as I was passing, and some allusion made as to "Pale 
Face 'fraid." A cousin of Mr. Whistler's wife. Old Chickaskuk, made it a past- 
time to step behind the sitting room door and as I would enter drop his 
hands over my eyes and then chuckle, but I must say right here that there 
was enough of the gentleman about him to never do it unless either Mr. or 
Mrs. Whistler was in the room and then how they would laugh! but it took 
me a good long time to see where the fun came in, for my blood would run 
cold a ndmy heart almost stop — but before the term expired Crickaskuk and 
I were very warm friends and he would often walk out almost to Grandpa's 
with M. C. Bales and me on Friday evenings. As to' the officers of the school 
board at that time I do not think there was any organization as I know that 
Mr. Whistler paid my salary from his own pocket, $30.00 per month. The 
last two months of school were a real pleasure and I was almost sorry to 
come north. We had our church and Sunday school, also in the Council 
Room The Rankins, Dr. Fenn and family, Mrs. Dr. Wiley, Becker, Young, 
Wilkins, Downs, HuUibarger and Bales were all active workers in both 
church and S. S. work and many others I do not recall. 

I returned to Iowa in March, 1870, only to talk of Kansas so constantly 
that my father, Mr. J. P. Saylor, who had been an invalid for years, decided 
to try the cjiange of climate and we started on the 26th of May and arrived at 
Lyndon June 14th. In Sept. I went down to Quenemo and between us we ar- 
ranged our school work for the year. The next thing was to drive to Bur- 
lingame and take examination for certificate under C. CJ. Fox and Mr. Kirby. 
On our return we found the prairie on fire from sparks from engine and it 
was almost a drive for .life for a few miles and for a long distance two large 
wolves led our procession in the race. By this time Old Chief Keokuk had 



become interested in the stliooi wuvk and was often a visitor with Mr. 
Whistler or Johnnie CJoodell as interpreter. His son Charles (loodell was 
an apt scholar and quite an artist and 1 encouraged him all I could and wanted 
him to go to Lawrence or Topeka to an instructor. Our fall term opened 
with many interested in the work and in each other, a fact I have so often 
noticed where nearly everyone is a stranger, they seem more sociable and 
anxious to do something for someone. We got along fairly well in the little 
council room until after the holidays, when the big boys started and then we 
were soreb' taxed for room and our accomodations were few. At this time 
1 had to have assistance from some of the larger pupils. Miss Frankie 
Wilkjns and M. C. Bales and one of the young boys would hear classes in the 
primary grades and often have I remained with scholars of the more ad- 
vanced classes and also some few in as low as 3rd grade, until pitch dark to 
help them thro the day's lessons and to bring out the practical parts; but for 
the Spring term we were glad to go into the new building, if only the shell it 
gave us something for breathing room, more than one blackboard, a place to 
hang maps without having to place and replace for each different class, also 
hat and cloak room, and what I enjoyed fully as much as anything, a wash 
room, how I did have to explain and demonstrate to that Board the real nec- 
essity of that one luxury; and I feel pretty sure that Mr. Whistler paid that 
extra amount from his own purse. You know "seeing is believing" and I 
often invited our friends to come in and take a pee)) at us as soon after as- 
sembly as possible. But perhaps you don't know that those were my most 
trying ordeals, the majority thought "larnin' " was alright but not a few 
thought it all a stuckup notion to want a basin, combs and towels, the two 
latter I furnished myself and did extra work and made little things for Mrs. 
Whistler's colored girl to put them through on her wash day. Frankie 
Wilkins and some of the larger girls took turns in ironing the towels. I 
often reminded myself of the Caricature on the advertising list of Peck's 
soap; but you would have enjoyed and also been surprised how soon each 
one would notice if an untidy one would slide into seat. That was my first 
in kindergarten work, so far as it went. I boarded with Dr. Wiley, Dr. Fenns 
and Mrs. Isaac Goodell for the first three months as Whistler's family were 
in the south camping in regular Wickiup style. 

Mr. John K. Rankin was a good help, often sending into the school room 
ribbons and remnants of bright colors for decoratig. The last three mouths 
of the term which closed 1st of April, were very hard months for me and 
many were the evenings when on going to my room I would feel I could not 



go another day, but 1 was carrying too much, as 1 had a quite large music 
class besides my school work. Our social work was on the whole enjoyable 
as Dan Lafferty and sister, Miss Ellen Lafferty were added to "our crowd 
which took everybody that would work with us," we made the winter months 
pleasant as well as profitable in the way of little sociables and church suppers 
to which everybody would donate and then pay so much for supper beside 
and nearly every one was such a willing worker, quite different from what we 
find in our large city churches of today, plenty of work but few workers. The 
following summer (that of '11) I spent on the farm, Vz mile N. E. of Lyndon 
and I thought I'd make butter and raise chickens, etc., but Mr. Whistler had 
set his heart on doing what he could in an educational way and having tried 
a subscription school and not successful, resolved on another trial. The dis- 
trict had rapidly filled as there were 2 or 3 families on nearly every clear 
spot, and as most of the people were of the "Horace Greely" kind — "Go west 
and grow up with the people," nearly all had families of children of school 
age and I felt I could not undertake the responsibilities I knew were before 
anyone who had the interest at heart and I knew I would ask for broader 
ideas and more advantages, and therefore could not accept the small re- 
muneration, $40.00 per month, but open hearted Mr. Whistler and a few 
more generous gentlemen said if I would take hold of it they would see me 
through. You know there always had been growlers and of course they were 
still in style at that time. But I renewed my energy and we went to work 
and I freely confess it was one of the happiest years of my school work. 
All this time we were working in the Churches and S. S. A new M. E. and a 
Presbyterian Church were built north of the town out toward the old Keokuk 
home. While I was a born Methodist I could always fall in line and work 
with any of God's people, but please do not think it was all sunshine and 
pleasre, many were the dark days and heartaches, for of course we are all 
mistaken in judgment at times. The winter was quite severe at times, but 
not of long duration. But time went by with an assistant most of the time 
and of encouraging different scholars in hearing classes recite to give them- 
selves the practical knowledge. I acting as principal, we accommodated an 
enrollment of 90 scholars, with almost 70 in daily attendance and I was re- 
ceiving $H1.00 per month and an allowace of $10.00 for helpers. We closed 
the school year on the 1st day of April with a "great exhibition for the day " 
in the M. E. Church and when I went to my home I was booked to go down 
to the Indian Territory in Sac and Fox Reservation and open and carry on 
the schools, for which I was to receive $600 in gold and Vi section of land. 



JJul wliile 1 wH!s oil uiy vatatioii Lu Iowa the dread messenger death on! ered 
Mr. Whistler's home and took him away. I dared not think of going so far 
from my family and seemingly alone, therefore gave up the proposed worK 
in the Indian Territory, for which I have many times regretted, for surely we 
who are left should be willing to take up the cudgel and carry on any good 
work that may have been so carefully planned. 

So if we were just talking I might tell of other little incidents, many of 
our little home socials, where Mother Ooodel and Miss Fanny and Isaac 
Goodell were so prominent. Of Mr. .lohn Goodell, with all his Indian dignity and 
of Mr. Whistler's colored boy, Ben, a typical Southern darkey, and of those 
dreadful prairie fires in that tall grass north of Salt Creek on the high rise 
of ground; they were dreadful and yet beautiful. The fiery flames seemed to 
lash their tongues into the very Heavens and many were the evenings that 
objects in our rooms were made plain by the light from the fires, "out of 
course with all its grandeur it many times carried destniction. Now if I v/as 
in the habit of using slang, I think I could hear you say, ring off, so by adding 
that I knew of nothing that would give me more pleasure than a visit with 
Quenemo and Lyndon friends, I am. Respectfully, 

MRS. LEIDA SAYLOR FOX, 
ftl6 drove St., Des Moines, Iowa. 

Mr. Elliott H. Fox and Leida Saylor Fox have four children. In 190.^) tiie 
record was: George P^ox, 28 years old, married and living at Duluth, Minn. 
Bessie Fox, married and living in Keokuk, Iowa. Fay Fox, living at home. 
Kenneth Fox, living at home. 

Mr. Fox travels over the Northeast and Northwest parts of the U. S. m 
the interest of a Flour Mill in Des Moines — has been at it 24 years. 

The Mr. Whistler that Mrs. Fox alludes to was William Whistler, who 
married Sarah Goodell, a half Indian and who was the first Representative in 
the State Legislature from Sac and Fox Reserve. 

There is much more history and lists of pupils of that early day down at 
Quenemo that 1 do not attempt to give in this Ridgeway History, as I got it 
for the Quenemo work. C. R. GREEN. 



Contribution By Albert M. Winner 

Real Estate Agt. 529 Brooklyn Ave., Kansas City, Mo. April 25, 1912. 

During the winter of 1862-3-1 a boy of 14 yrs. was at Baldwin Kansas — 
working for my board (and I earned it) and attending Baker. Among the 
pupils — Was Charley Keokuk and Joe Chic kus kuk or some such name and an 
Indian girl about 17 or 18 — called Jane Goodell — I do not recall her indian 
name all Sac and Fox people — I recall — late one evening seeing a light in 
the old park and going over found the two boys had killed with bow and 
arrows several birds and had them spitted on twigs cooking them — I joined 
them and had a bird but I do not think I ate all of it — no salt — and being 
a little dubious in regard to how fully it had been (un) dressed? I think 
they must have been 10 or 12 years old — silent and queer little fellows — I 
have often wondered how the hunting instinct developes in children and es- 
pecially among those of the primitive races — Is not Keokuk the present 
Chief? One cold afternoon — I came into the kitchen with a basket of 
chips — it had been sleeting and the chips were coated with ice — Jane was 
sitting on a low stool — crouching over the fire — she had a dress on cut rather 
low in the neck and as I passed her — I dropped one of the ice covered chips 
down her waist. I did not think until the thing was done — but I had good 
cause to remember it for it was many days before all the black and blue 
marks and scratches went away — I was living with Old Nathan Taylor and 
it took me a long time to get back into the good graces of the Methodist 
brothers and sisters. I suppose you know all these people so I will not write 
about them. 

• I came to Kansas — September, 1858 — My father one year earlier, 

I think that this Indian girls name was Jane Shaw paw kaw kof . C. R. G. 




MOSES KEOKUK AND SON CHARLES--I860 

OR ABOUT THE TIME OF THE REMOVAL 
TO QUENEMO 





Mrs. Julia Goodell late in life. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary Means Keo- 
kuk. When Julia was about 22 and Mary Mitchell a Httle child of 4 
during the Black Hawk war the mother took the child on her back 
and swam the Wisconsin river at flood tide, one-eighth of a mile wide 
with the soldiers shooting at the Indians. 

Mrs. Moses Keokuk's talk to C. R. Green 1903. 



The Sauk Indian, "QUENEMO" 

By C. R. Green, Historian, Lyndon, Kas., 1903. 

Among the mounted paiiers on file in our Kansas Historical Society 
articles, is one contributed to a newspaper in 1894 by the late Maj. Henry 
Inman author of the Santa Fe Trail books. 

It is a very readable article entitled "How the town of Quenemo was 
named." However like many other tales and traditions handed down to us 
by the pioneers of the days when many Indian tribes dwelt here in Kansas 
along our streams crowded together in some cases, 50 years ago, this 
Quenemo story will bear some sifting out. 

Why! Said an old pioneer to me within the year who lives within four 
miles of Quenemo and has lived in the territory now called Osage county 
since November 14, 1854. I thought Quenemo was named from a woman, 
the wife of the Sac and Fox Indian interpreter John Goodell, the woman who 
in the Black Hawk war swam the Mississippi river with a child on her back 
to escape being shot down by the soldiers. 

Maj. Inman's story is nearer the truth than anything that I have ever 
seen in print, but living on the Sac and Fox Reserve these twenty-three years 
and improving every opportunity to interview both white pioneers and many 
half blood Indians I feel that my investigations have not been in vain and 
that my story can be substantiated. 

One of the pioneers of the Reserve who came to Kansas in 1855 just in 
time to be- one of the defenders of Lawrence against Sheriff Jones and his 
friends from Missouri, in time became a Government employee among the 
Sac and Fox Indians at Agency Hill and says one of his first jobs was to as- 
sist in making a coffin for an old chief named Quenemo and he also assisted 
in the burying of him. That was in 18G3 I suppose in the new Indian burial 
ground up at the large Mission building on the Hill. O. S. Starr, O. C. 
Williams, Elmer Calkins, George McMillen and others all settlers of 1869 and 
'70 on the Reserve S. W. of Melvern along the Marias des Cygnes knew 
Quenemo very well and during the 70's when as one of Mo ko ho kos Band, 
later known as the Kansas band, he continued to live along the river in his 
wicky-up with his second wife between Melvern and Olivet and worked for 
some of these settlers I think they are right, Mr. Calkins says that he was 
alive as late as 1880 for he lived on their farm. Finally when down in the 
Indian Ty. after his annuities dying there and was buried in his blanket by 
his fellow Indians on Deer Creek. 

Oh! the joys of a historian. To add to my confusion a sister historian 
took up the cudgel against me and managed to bury on the classic banks of 
"The Swan River" right here in Osage "My Old Indian Quenemo." So this 
time out of desperation I helped pay the expense of a young man who having 
Indian blood in his veins was going down to visit relatives and see to business 
among the Sac and Fox Indians in the Indian Ty. I asked several questions in 
writing and he wrote down the answers. He went to the old Chief Moses Keo- 



kuk who is yet alive more than 80 years old and whoseonly wife now is the 
well known half breed woman, Mary Mitchell Means, the child in July, 1832, 
who was carried across the river on the squaws back above alluded to. 
Keo kuk said Quenemo died down there some time prior to 1880 and was 
buried out about IVz miles from the Agency. 

While the Sauks never learned to talk English very easily yet they could 
understand and make replies by signs and a few words, so that Orlando S. 
Starr drew out considerable history from Quenemo as he helped him to hoe 
his crops and ate at his table. Investigations on Starrs part satisfied him 
that Quenemo was born of a union of a Sauk warrior and an Ottawa or Seneca 
squaw about 1805-8 back on the banks of the Huron of the Lakes in what would 
now be Huron Erie or Sandusky counties, Ohio. At the close of the 18th 
century there use to be an Indian town by the name of Pequatting on the 
Huron river 6 miles from Lake Erie. The city of Milan birth place of 
Thomas A. Edison and your humble servant has occupied the site of that old 
Indian town now nearly a century. 

Black Hawk and his Sauk followers were allies of the British and every 
year back in the beginning of the 19th century were going back and forth 
from their homes on the Mississippi river to the British Post at Maiden, 
Canada, where they received presents for their faithfulness though living in 
United States Territory. These Indian warriors roamed a long ways from 
home. I find in Missouri history that large bands of the Sauk use to hunt 
as far south, 100 years ago, as the Ozark mountains on the south side of the 
Missouri river. So we can account very well for this union of Sauk with Ot- 
tawa. What pleasant hunting grounds they found in Michigan and Ohio. 
They were at peace with all these tribes then which only a few years later 
were moved to the Kansas, Nebraska Indian Territory. 

Quenemo says that he remained there on the banks of the Huron until 
after two Indians were hung for murder .Inly 1, 1819, at the county seat, 
Norwalk, O. These were the Ottawa Indians who had murdered a white ped- 
dler and it is a matter of court record in my old county of Huron. Quenemo 
now perhaps 15 removes west, of his history beyond the Mississippi fighting 
the Sioux or what part he took in the Black Hawk war of 1832 or whose band 
he stayed with in Iowa on the Des Moines Sac and Fox Reservation. I know 
not, in October, 1845, they left Iowa and went by land southward led by their 
agent, John Beach to Brunswick, Mo., near the mouth of the Grand River. 
Here they could be fed and more easily looked after because of the steam- 
boat service an the Missouri river to and from St. Louis the great western 
Indian agency. By treaty they had in 1842 faith fully promised to give up 
their Iowa Reservation by October, 1845. The 2400 Sac and Fox conferate 
tribes were to receive more than a million dollars and a new reservation in 
Kansas. When they moved from Iowa the question had not been fully de- 
cided as to the exact location of the new reservation. That winter of 1845-46 
it was settled and Keo kuk, the father of Moses known as the watchful Fox 
with most of the confederation moved in the Spring up on to the Wa-ka-rusn 



what later was Douglas county. That year they raised treir squaw patch 
gardens there while Agent Reach had the agency buildings known later as 
Greenwood Sac and Fox agency built. So that by fall of 1846 the Sac and 
Foxes that had kept with Keo kuk and Agent Beach gathered there. Some 
four or five hundred Indians went off visiting the Iowa and Sac and Fox band 
which had located west of the Missouri River on the Great Nemaha in the 
neighborhood of what 10 years later Highland, Kansas. Mo ho ko ho ko was 
of that band, but I think Quenemo stayed wth Keokuk or some of the other 
chiefs. As I understand it from inquiries Quenemo never was really a chief, 
though always spoken of by whites as if he was. He was naturally of a 
quiet, peaceable, half civilized nature. In reply to my written questions the 
other Indians simply called him a "Brave" choosing from year to year to 
whose band he should belong. For they could not draw their annuities with- 
out being enrolled. I find by referring to an old pay roll of Agent Albert 
Wiley for the year 1868-69 loaned me by the heir of Maj. Wiley's papers Miss I 
M. Andrews Kenton, Ohio, that Quenemo was No. 13 on Mo ko ho kos roll 
that there were then 3 in Quenemo's family drawing a total of 60 dollars cash. 
Each man, woman and child, even Moko ho Ko the chief got the same viz. $20 
unle?s by reason of blindness, old age or death when $20 more was added, 
$14840 annuities cash were paid then to 694 persons. Men, 227; women, 234; 
children, 233. The old settlers there all testify that liquor could not be got 
on the Reservation easily as it was against the law but that those who would 
have it had to got to some of the low graggeries in towns round about to have 
their big drunks. Our old Quenemo was not of that sort for on a time he 
fell sick with the ague and chills long in the 70's. He went to Dr. W. C. Sweezy 
of Olivet who prescribed quinine and whiskey but could not supply him. He 
then went to Orlando Starr for whom he had worked a good deal and asked 
a loan of two dollars to get the medicine with. After he got it it made two 
bottles and he left one of them there for safe keeping for he had as a second 
wife a squaw who was a sort of termigant, nearly killing him one time in their 
wickyup a couple of miles away in a fit of passion with a butcher knife. 

Thus we catch a glimpse of old Quenemo who had he been able to talk 
English could have told many interesting incidents of his Indian life since 
he left Ohio in 1820. 

Mr. Starr was born there on the Firelands only l.'i miles from Milan. His 
grandfather. Smith Starr, moved into Clarkstield from Conn, about Nov., 1817, 
Some 30 townships off the western end of the Western Reserve Northwest 
Ty. had been granted to a great number of sufferers from Fires along the 
Long Island Sound living in Connecticut by reason of British expeditions 
sent out during the Revoltutionary war. In time the lands in the west sur- 
veyed divided up and being settled were called Firelands. 

The long land journey through woods over almost impassable swamps 
from Conn, had consumed many weeks. The journey towards the last was 
a very tedious one — dense woods, deep streams to cross with now and then 
a settlers cabin or a camp of Indians. How rejoiced they were at last to 



reach their lands. The writers grandparents uncle and aunt came 8 years 
later from Conn, and settled in the adjoining town of Walieman and his 
mother was born there in 1826 and thus he has heard stories about "Early 
Days There." 

I do not know how many children this family of Smith Starrs had when 
they came there. There were half grown boys for one of them Taylor Starr 
came to Baldwin in the 50's to help fight Kansas battles in the ranks of the 
Free State men, and died here "twice a pioneer." Smith Starrs riches were 
not very great in those days after the close of the war of 1812-15, when he ar- 
rived at his journeys end his team consisted of a cow and horse yoked to- 
gether some way pulling a cart I presume for that is what my Great Grand- 
father Smith used in one of his journeys as late as the 30's. 

The cow was part of their living and when they got to their new home 
was turned out to graze on the marshes and by and by came up missing. A 
search around home in the woods by the youngsters did not reveal her where- 
abouts; no cow could be found. A cow on the Firelands in 1818 was about as 
plenty as bears were here when our first settlers came, none at all. A 
friendly Indian relieved young Starr's search for the cow by piloting him a 
journey of 12 miles through the forests to an Indian town on the Huron river 
where as they drew up near young Starr heard the sound of the old familiar 
cow bell ringing in most gladsome tones accompanied by the shouts and 
laughter of a lot of Indian youths in play as they raced around the little In- 
dian village after their leader who had the cow bell. "There's your cow" said 
his Indian guide. The lad went home satisfied that it was useless to hunt 
longer. The Indians had made venison of the cow. While Quenemo may 
not have been one if those Indian lads, yet he was of that age and living 
thereabouts. 

Fifty-two or three years now elapse, a grandson of that same old Ohio 
pioneer Smith Starr, a young man with family now comes out to Kansas to 
carve himself out a home. After a year or two residence at Baldwin the In- 
dians are removed and the Sac and Fox Reserve thrown open to settlement. 
He is one of the "Pioneers" who came in those years of 1S69 and '70, one of 
hundreds of old soldiers of the Civil War his name Orlando S. 
Starr. By the payment of money he secured the homstead 
rights from some settler earlier on the ground to a choice 160 acres 5 miles 
N. W. of Melvern out on the smooth level prairie in the Richview neighbor- 
hood now. An acquaintance Scott Daniels secures a bottom farm a couple of 
miles distant on the Marias des Cygnes, he had been there a year longer and 
Starr now has plenty of work on his hands the breaking and fencing of his 
land. He has a good team and wagon that he brought from Ohio. It has 
enabled him to make a good living since his arrival in Kansas and lay up 
money beside to buy their home. Daniels has a well timbered farm with 
numerous squaw patches on several parts of it where the prairie glades ran 
down to the river, but he has no team. Those little Indian patches are easily 
enlarged into fields and strong team help was needed so in those years of be- 

IV 




QUENEMO 



Wm. Hurr, the Sac and Fox inter- 
preter in 1903 told me that he had a 
step-son by the name of Orilla Davis, 
whose Indian name was Quenemo. 
That through his father Arthur Davis 
the lad was great-grandson of old 
Quenemo's. 

He was then away attending the 
Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. Later 
through the assistance of the Supt. of 
that school I procured this picture. 
There are other descendants of old 



Quenemo alive but mostly of the fe- 
male line. 

Quenemo is standing. The others 
are fellow tribesmen to fill out the 
picture, one is named Thoi-pe. If old 
Quenemo ever had a picture taken as 
some said he did in Osage county. My 
offer of five dollars for its use failed 
to bring it, although one of the half 
IVoods manae-ed to get $3.50 of the 
offered sum into his hands and kept 
it. C. R. Green. 



ginning these two settlers join forces and the crops are raised down on the 
the bottom and in a year or two when Daniels leaves he places the farm in 
Starrs hands to manage and sell. 

William Cables well known to Bnrlingame people owned the next bottom 
farm below on the Marias des Cygnes. This farm had an Indian Sac and Fox 
burial ground on it, later it was owned many years by O. C. Williams. The 
farm immediately above the Daniels farm also a river bottom farm was owned 
then by Samuel Calkins, the father of P:imer Calkins, who with Orlando Starr 
still lives there on the Reserve. 

We will now leave these settlers for the present who in many cases were 
squatters on claims for several months before the Reserve was proclaimed 
by the President open for settlement. Starr has told me that many times in 
those earlier years his shake cabin, small as it was, has sheltered of a night 
many both Indians and whites who rolled in their own blankets asked only 
the use of fire and floor. 

Agent Albert Wiley helped the Indians to select another reservation in 
the Indian Ty. in the spring of 1869 and the date of the departure of the Sac 
and Fox tribe from Agency Hill (later Quenemo) under Government escort 
was Nov. 26, 1869. All the full blood Indians were gathered in and removed. 
Moko ho ko and his band which in one of these years embraced three-fifths 
of the whole tribe were carried from the Reservation by force, Moko ho Ko 
when the first treaty under Agent Henry Martin February 18, 1867, was be- 
ing made did all he could to keep the Indians froni agreeing to trade away 
their Reservation in Osage county. He showed them how back on the Des 
Moines, la.. Reservation the Government had faithfully through their agent 
John Chambers October 11, 1842, entered into covanent with them that if they 
would sell their Reservation there and remove to the new one on the head- 
waters of the Osage that that should always be a perpetual residence for 
them and their descendants," October, 1845, they had left the Iowa Reserva- 
tion and fulfilled their part and again October 11, 1859, the Sac and Fox na' 
tion had consented to the sale of the west half of their Reservation to the 
settlers and speculators that funds thus gained might be expended by Perry 
Fuller and others in the erection of houses on the Diminished Reserve and 
the starting up of the Mission buildings. This had been done and now the 
Indians had a nice compact Reservation well watered and timbered and Moko 
ho ko wild Indian as he was knew what his band wanted, knew that 
they were attached to this home. He had been to Washington and was 
when he succeeded to the command of Hard Fishes band removed further up 
the Marais des Cygnes to the neighborhood of Rock Creek holding himself 
aloof from civilization, and can one blame him? From the treaty of 1859 for 
ten years drunken unprincipled white traders, land speculators, sharks made 
these Indian tribes of Kansas their prey because while the Civil War was on 
our better class of American citizens were largely at the front saving the na- 
tion. When General (Jrant came into office the wliole Indian question was 
placed in the hands of Quakers. But though Mako ho ko did all he could 



to save his people Keokuk, Che-kus kuk, Uc kuaw ho ko, Mut tut tah and 
Man ah to wah all chiefs with various fololwings the total not amounting to 
as many braves as Mo ko ho ko had were influenced by liquor, by gifts by 
favors until after 18 months the treaty with some changes was got through 
Congress and proclaimed by the President October 11, 1868, one of its pro- 
visions being that no settlers were to be allowed on the Diminished Reserve 
until the Indians were removed. 

One of the teamsters who went on this two or three weeks journey by 
land to help haul the Indians supplies and accompany the Indians said that 
after they unloaded and started back mounted Indians passed them every 
day returning to their old liome. How many stayed there I never heard, 
Moko ho ko did not for him and his band now reduced to from 120 to 80 dwelt 
on the Marias des Cygnes among the whites 17 years longer. The Govern- 
ment gathered them up and took them with the half bloods down to their 
Indian Ty. Reservation again in 1872. This time Moko ho Ko and his band 
were the only ones who returned. The settlers found that the Indian bucks 
were good workers at crop tending and gathering and were honest and most 
of them sober, well behaved Indians of Quenemo stripe. Remaining as they 
did in Kansas away from their agency they could not draw any annuities so 
that they soon realized that to live they had to labor. 

They camped all along the river, I met one evening a party of 15 or more 
coming out of a corn field with corn knives in hand where they had been 
shocking corn up near Arvonia, with their families camped up there. O. C. 
Williams, who carried on farming extensively after I moved onto the Re- 
servation in 1880 use to work them in very successfully and agreeably to all 
parties. So as I have remarked at the beginning of this article Starr and 
Daniels hired Quenemo and later on Starr had old Quenemo to help him sev- 
eral times thus getting very well acquainted and Starr visited his wickyup 
near the Daniels farm. In the several years that Quenemo lived around there 
lie made trips with his family down to the Sac and Fox agency and stayed 
long enough to be enrolled anl draw his annuity and it was on one of these 
occasions about 1878 that he died. Evidently about the time that the treaty 
was made in 1859 he had married his second wife. His two boys went with 
the Indians and for themselves so that Starr never knew them. I learned in 
more recent years that one of them died without issue, the other whose name 
was Waw po lo Kah married and had left two children when he too died. The 
childrens names were Mrs. Tecumseth and Arthur Davis or else the boy died 
and Mrs. Tecunseth an Indian widow had married Arthur Davis. It is very, 
difficult to trace kinship among Indians. I learned that up to Mrs. Tecun- 
seth's marriage there had never been any Quenemo, but Orilla Davis, her son, 
received that name. He was picked cut as a fit person to be educated at 
the Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania and by payment of 50 cents the 
superintendent of that school had an excellent picture taken of him and sent 
to me. It is presented herewith. Some of the half blood Indians thought 
that old Quenemo had had his picture taken once and 1 was induced to ad- 

VI 



vance $3.r>0 to get the loan of it but I failed. I was i)articiilarly interested 
in this because the Quenemo Sanitarium in its published circular papers once 
gave an Indian's picture in its columns as old Quenemo which I carried down 
with me to the Sac and Fox Agency and showed to the Indian council through 
Mr. Hurr the Indian interpreters assistance one day when the chiefs and 
principal men of the nation were assembled. They immediately pronounced 
it a hoax. It was a St. Joe Medicine Go's, picture simply labeled Quenemo. 
it was that of some Sioux. In late years in Vol. 11 of Kansas Hist. Society a 
writer or the editor of an article on the history of the Sac and Fox Miss, 
band uses this spurious picture the second time for Quenemo. Anyone at all 
versed in the peculiar dress and porcupine quill work and long visage of the 
Sioux warrior can detect the fraud. The Sauk and Fox are inclined to have 
a rounder skull and they wear ornaments of necklace style, posing with a 
tommyhawk pipe perhaps. 

Here I will insert a short article that I wrote for a paper several years 
ago that throws some more light on Quenemo's history. In my article thus 
far I have touched several points embraced in this for which the reader will 
pardon me the repetition. I find from reading this article over after several 
years that it brings out Mr. Starrs story of Quenemo in a very interesting 
form. So many of the prominent chiefs and Indians of that Reserve around 
Agency Hill used liquor to such an extent that it was very unpleasant to 
have them around. 

THE INDIAN QUENEMO. 

A True Story of Indian Life by C. R. Green, Lyndon, Historian 1902. 
Lemuel F. Warner brother-in-law of Charlie Cochran and present Co. Commis- 
sioner for our district of Osage county has been here more than 40 years. 
Though on general principles a farmer he has kept store at Melvern many 
years and is always an interesting talker on early day matters. Recently he 
was telling me how the Indians caught on to Uncle Sam's facilities, find- 
ing its advantages in sending communications to the Iowa band of Sacs up 
in Brown Co. near the Nebraska line. Two or three squaws from Mokohokos 
camp on Cyrus Cases's farm came into his store one day, and after doing their 
trading, proceeded to dispatch a letter, the post office also being in the store. 
They were anxious to have the letter go through quickly to its destination, 
therefore they placed a stamp at each end of the envelop and Warner was 
interviewed as to further aids in its delivery. These Indians of Osage Co. 
worked. They earned very much more than if they had been with treir tribe. 
I have met bands of 2(t or more corn cutters and buskers going to and from 
work. Orlando Starr's first asquaintance with Quenemo began in 1871, when 
he came and asked work to help hoe the crops. He and Daniels raised lots 
of truck crops to sell the miners in Osage City, Quenemo had his wicky-up 
near by on the Calkins or Daniels farm. The settlers never forbid them the 
use of camping places as a rule, for they never stole and often caught off 
the wild animals that made raids on the whites' premises, (iuenemo had a 



second wife then, a boy 8 or 10 years old, and a little girl some older. His 
first wife had been dead many years, leaving him two or three sons of the 
regular blanket Indian kind, 30 o 40 years old who went with the tribe. 
Starr, thought Quenemo to be 75 or 80 then, as he was gray. His second wife 
was a vicious squaw of an evil disposition, who Quenemo told Starr, had tried 
to kill him on an occasion with a butcher knife. Says Starr, "Que'iemo was 
honest, temperate and a respecter of Christian ways. He sat up to the table 
find behaved as well as any white and had a very high sense of honor. He 
hoed and worked for me a great deal until as late as 1S7 4. He was a good 
corn busker and him and I use to do .such jobs together for the neighbors 
He worked a great deal for O. C. Williams and others. One time he came to 
me out on my farm looking quite ill, he said he was sick and wanted some 
medicine but he had no money. He had money owing to him off somewhere 
but was unable to go after it. He probably was sick with malaria, chills and 
ague. He wanted to borrow 2 dollars to get medicine. I had nothing but a 
5 dollar bill but trusting him fully I gave it to him and he went up to Dr. 
Sweezie's at Olivet who prescribed medicine for him the required whiskey to 
put it in probably quinine. The Dr. didn't have the whiskey for his medi- 
cine. Back Quenemo came to me a round trip journey of ten or twelve 
miles, gave me my change and told me the trouble about the whiskey. All 
saloons, drug stores and individuals had to be careful about selling Indians 
liquor then as now, as it was against laws of the government, I had none to 
give or sell him so he made arrangements with me to get some when next I 
went off to Osage city and as his case was very urgent he went and got an- 
other Indian by the name of Alec from the Indian camp two or three miles up 
the river to come and help me dig potatoes and prepare my loading for my 
trip the next day to Osage city where I got his whiskey. Another time he 
had me get a pint for him, divide it and give him part at a time with the 
quinine in it, to be used as medicine. 

"He respected the Sabbath day for I had a brother, Wm. Starr, out here 
from Ohio visiting me over Sunday and we walked down to the bottom farm 
to see the crops, while there we went over to call on Quenemo and his family 
in his wickyup on Calkins place. As we drew nigh we heard a rasping noise 
going on and when we entered the hut saw Quenemo busily at work making 
a saddle tree with an old rasp. After some talk by which Quenemo was led 
to ask what day it was, and finding it was Sunday he at once put up his work, 
signifying that he did not wish to engage in work on Sunday. Quenemo said 
he had lived not only in Ohio but in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. 
He made maps with his fingers on the ground that corresponded very well 
with Starrs maps and later Starr got maps and Quenemo showed him at once 
his old locations. 

In his earlier years with the tribe before the Black Hawk war they 
seemed to be among the Winnebagoes of Wisconsin gathering wild rice a 
great deal and he says that he lived on a reservation in those days in what 
was later the N. E. corner of Iowa, possibly opposite Prairie du Chien. This 

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PROBABLY A SIOUX INDIAN. 



A picture of an Indian furnished 
the folks at the town of Quenemo by 
a St. Joe medicine company purport- 
ing to be that of the Indian Quenemo. 
Dr. Robinson used in May 28,1903 with 
some Indian stories in the paper to 
advertise his Sanitarium there, Nov. 
20 of the same year I appeared before 
the Sac and Fox Indian Council in 
Oklahoma and showed them the pic- 
ture which the Indians present who 
knew Quenemo well and helped to 



bury him there immediately pronoun- 
ced a fraud. 

The writer of an article afterwards 
(1910) published by the Kansas His- 
torical Society in Vol. 11 page 380 
entitled "Sauks and Foxes of Frank- 
lin and Osage counties" allows the 
' ame picture to be used of hte Sioux 
Indian purporting to be Quenemo's. 
The reader can compare the shape of 
the skulls and dress and see the dif- 
ference from our Sac and Fox Indians. 
C. R. Green 



was a 20 mile strip running diagonally south west ward from the Mississippi 
river to the Des Moines ceded by the Sac and Foxes to the U. S. in 1830. 
Fort Dodge was on it. If the old Indian was yet alive and would talk as 
freely to me he did to friend Starr 30 years ago what a bonanza he would 
of truck crops to sell the miners in Osage City, Quenemo has his wicky-up 
was made in 1867-9 he had married his second wife. His two boys went with 
long enough to be enrolled and draw his annuity and it was one one of these 
shocking com up near Arronia, with their families camped up there. O. C. 
be to my "Historical Bureau." Pretending to no education yet the very 
soul of honor. An Indian easy to get acquainted with yet never begging a 
favor. 

Warner, Craig one of the early pioneers at the agency was one of the 
organizers of the proposed town that should be built up there when the In- 
dans were removed. It was left to him to suggest an appropriate name for 
the new town. While several of them were deliberating over the town plans 
I presume in the Indian Council House in 1869 the door opened and Quenemo 
stepped in. Immediately without further thought Craig spoke up "I name this 
town Quenemo after my old Indian friend here." 

The story came direct to me from Dr. E. B. Fenn's lips who was a Govern- 
ment Doctor there from 1866 among the Indians. Fenn asked Craig about 
it and was told the circumstances of naming it. The meaning of Quenemo 
Dr. Fenn said was something "hoped for" "longed for," etc., which is a lit- 
tle different from that expressed in the "legend of Quenemo "as interpreted 
by George W. Logan who semed among all the whites there at Quenemo to 
best understand their legends — and mythology. 

John Capper obtained this definition for me in 1901 Quenemo! "I am 
longing for you" or "I am lonesome without you." 

A SHORT VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF QUENEMO. 

Ages ago the Dacotahs made a treaty with the Sauk and Foxes. One 
stipulation of which was that the women captured in war by either tribe 
should not be put to death as had been the custom in their savage warfare 
before. 

At the close of one terrible conflict in which the Dacotahs were victorious 
seven of the Sauk and Fox squaws were captured and carried off to the cold 
bleak country of the Dacotahs far to the north. After remaining prisoners 
for some time they were released, provided with a supply of dried buffalo 
meat and set on their way south towards home. Many weary days were con- 
sumed in wandering aimlessly through the deep pine forests of the upper 
Mississippi. At last the poor squaws realized that they were lost, and a 
heavy snow storm peculiar to that latitude coming on they constructed a rude 
hut of boughs in which they prepared to pass the winter or until the weather 
would admit of their continuing their journey. 

Weeks passed one by one the women died of starvation, until only one 
was left. She was (enciente) and in her terrible loneliness and helpless con- 
dition gave birth to a boy pappoose. In her misery as she looked uiion her 



new born babe, she uttered these words Que ne mo!" "Que ne mo!" There 
is no English equivalent, but imagine all that expresses the deepest despair 
and most poignant sorrow. O! my God! My God! Why has thou deserted 
me? 

The poor squaw with her pappoose struggled slowly southward when 
Spring came at last reaching her people and home with the boy in fine condi- 
tion. That she had been forced by starvation to feed on the flesh of her dead 
companions and thus by that means had lived to returned and tell the tale to 
her people was something partaking of the supernatural. 

The warriors held a great council of seven days. One day for each of 
the dead and one for the living and her child, and made a covenant with the 
squaw mother that this child should be a chieftain of his band and that as 
long as time should last the title should remain in her family and that the 
oldest son of each generation following should be called Quenemo and that 
there should never be but one Quenemo at a time. END. 

I have heard that there were in the 60's near the Agency a Quenemo 
Band, I think that about 1850-60 he belonged to Hard Fish's Band east of 
Greenwood Agency at his death there for a short time it was Quenemo Band 
Then Moko ho ko with Indians from the Missiouri Band of Sauk and Foxes 
joined the Mississippi Band and many of the latter joined Moko ho ko because 
he hated civilization. In Iowa Quenemo was with the band that kept further 
away from the white man's influences. In Kansas Agent Chenault in his 
report of 1851 commends the Chief Tuck-quas Band of Sacs. He said that 
the chief never took liquor. Had great influence over them and it was the 
best regulated one of all the Indians. 

Henry Clay Jones whose father was a Frenchman and mother a Fox 
squaw, born back in Iowa so far as I know is living yet. I have been to his 
home in the nation and stayed with him. He is a well informed wealthy land 
owner with a large family. He has always been with the conferedate tribes. 
Has filled many responsible positions and his history will be given in full 
hereafter. He is well known in Osage County, Kansas. 

Shortly before Quenemcs death the Osage Indians came to visit the Sac 
and Foxes. They were feasted and gathered in the council room 'The Calumet' 
The Pipe of Peace went the rounds and oratory was in order. Quenemo 
arose and made a short speech in regard to the significance of the "Calumet" 
and its ornimentation. The trimmings of it by some oversight had been 
made red, which Quenemo said was wrong— it meant war. Thus this old In- 
dians' last public utterance was that tended to draw down the blessings 
of the Great Spirit upon their Councils. 

At this time 1878 the confederate tribe of Sac and Foxes could not have 
numbered 700. In 1845 thev had numbered nearly 3.000 Death by diseases 
<small-pox bloody flux, pneumonia, principally carried them off. In liih2-6 
there was a falling off of 487 from all causes and when the tribe took their 
lands in severality in late years there were about 500 and of that number at 
least 20 who had come down from the Iowa Reservation in 1845-46. 

END 



HENRY HUDSON WIGGANS' NARRATIVE 

Taken by C. R. Green, May 1902. 
SCOTCH-IRISH BLOOD IN AMERICA. 

John Wiggans fought through the American Revolution. He loved 
the Idea of independence, was a Scotchman by birth, born about 1727 in the 
Scotch Highlands. He came to New England in time to get thoroughly em- 
bued with patriotic feelings. He joined the army and helped to fight the 
first battle, Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Afterward he returned to Scot- 
land, recruited half a company of men and was back with them in the Con- 
tinental army and served to the end of the war. 

A curious incident comes out in connection with the army service of 
John Wiggans and his Scotch comrades. They had left wives and children 
behind them to join the army, some left behind in Scotland came over as 
soon as they could and found their husbands in distant parts of the land. 
The means of communication were very scant, so three of the woman drew 
cuts as to which one should stay behind and mind the children. The other 
two managed to find their husbands in time to witness a battle and in that 
battle the husband of the woman who staid at home was killed. This old 
grandfather Wiggans lived to a great old age, emigrating to live with his 
children and grandchildren further west as the country settled up, until at 
the time of his death, about 1838, he lived with a younger son, John Wiggins, 
of Franklin county, Indiana, and was 110 years, 8 months and 10 days old 
at death, holding all his faculties almost to the last. He counted as his friend 
who came in his latter years to visit him every year or two, the great Ken- 
tucky statesman, Henry Clay. Mr. Wiggans was sixty years or more older 
than Henry Clay who was born about 1776, but became a member of congress 
as early as 1806 and held official positions in Washington more or less until 
his death in 1852. His home at Ashland, Kentucky, was on the Ohio river, 
Wiggan's home was in Franklin county, Indiana, perhaps forty miles from 
Cincinnati, but great statesmen in those days, in their own coaches, made 
journeys through the land calling on their friends and ascertaining the peo- 
ple's wants in the legislature of the land. In the Wiggans home, away out 
in the wilds of Indiana, he found live enterprising men and woman who were 
only to glad to have an opportunity to talk with the great statesman, Henry 
Clay, when he came to call on the old Scotch revolutionary hero. 

Who were these woman who were so interested in national matters ? 
What was the all absorbing question that they dared, with Mrs. Clay's help, 
urge the friend and husband to lay before Congress? It was the Federal 
postal matters. Cheaper postage, speedier mail routes. This household felt 
these matters for they were Scotch-Irish, and to sell eggs at 1^ to 2 cents 
per dozen or work as a servant girl one week or if a man, work from one to 



two days at fifty cents cash per day, if one could be found who paid cash 
wages, and all this to get one letter out of the office weighing one ounce at 
from 88 cents to $1.12 postage and 3 months old, from Philadelphia or from 
the old country — postage was payable in specie. 

In all the colonies in 1776 there were only twenty-eight postoffices. 
From 1792 for fifty years after. Federal laws for postage was as follows: 
On letters, 30 miles or under 6^/4 cents payable when the letter was delivered. 
As the distance increased there was an increased scale of rates: 150 to 200 
miles 15 cents, 350 to 450 miles 22 cents, and all over 450 miles in the Feder- 
al Union 25 cents. Extra enclosures doubled the rates and if it weighed over 
one ounce it was multiplied by four. 

Previous to the reduction of letter rates in 1845 a letter from the sea- 
board to the west as far as Indiana had a dollar or more postage on it. 

John Wiggans died in 1838. These visits of Henry Clay and wife 
terminated, but the importunities of the women did not pass from the great 
statesman's mind. He was the mover of many reforms in the law making of 
congress. In 1845 congress authorized the use of postage stamps — prior to 
that time the postmasters wrote on the letters how much postage to collect 
or that had been paid ahead. It was not until 1847 that the United States 
issued their first postage stamps, which were only two denominations, 5 and 
10 cents. In 185'1 letter postage was further reduced to three cents for each 
half ounce and eight kinds of stamps issued. 

This household in Indiana that was. so interested in the thirties and 
forties in postal reform had a great deal of correspondence with Ireland. 
The old grandmother, Evans, had taken her children and gone as a refugee 
from home and country. Her husband had been beheaded by the English 
and his estates confiscated for some Irish rebellion. The widow and her 
children fled to America and their legacy was a good education. John Wig- 
gans, a young man, the builder of the first stone houses in the infant city of 
Cincinnati was attracted to the daughter, Sarah Evans, who inherited from 
her refugee mother that force of character that made her distinguished. 
Sarah had been back to Ireland and received a good education, and was a 
teacher in Cincinnati. The union between these two made a Scotch-Irish 
household in the new west that sent out sons to fight for liberty and reform 
in America ever after. The old Revolutionary grandfather lived there until 
his death in 1838, and the old grandmother Evans lived there until her death 
at the age of 1-07 years. 

HENRY HUDSON WIGGANS was born in Franklin county Indiana, 
August 13, 1832. He was the youngest of several children, his mother di- 
rected the education of the children, but unfortunately when Henry was ten 
j'ears old she died and he early was thrown on the world. The mould of 
character and love of liberty inherited however from these parents never 
was lost in his fight for place in the world. When he was past fifteen he be- 

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IliiNKY II. WICiGANS. KOO. 



He was married to Miss Emily Jane Tague of same county December 
16th, 1854 and emigrated to Kansas the next year. Though deprived of his 
schooling he was of an enquiring turn of mind and good in figures and gen- 
eral knowledge. On their way west he procured in Indianapolis a copy of 
the U. S. Pre-emption laws and a small pocket compass. They were a party 
of several. Mrs. Wiggan's mother and two sisters, one married to Wm. Me- 
Whinney, whose pioneer life was along with Mr. Wiggans nearly fifteen 
years. (Mrs. Sarah McWhinney his widow now resides at Mrs. Wiggans.) 

The party came through in little over a month to the vicinity of 
Prairie City, landing there November 11, 1855. There was a log cabin there 
with a store in it kept by Willetts. A Dr. Graham was building a house 
then there at Prairie City which was their postofRce. The place is now called 
Media. 

Mr. Wiggans located a claim several miles south next to the Talway 
Indians, the quarter that now contains Norwood Station, Franklin Co. Not 
being yet surveyed then, they had to move a little ways after the survey. 

Two miles below him on Toy creek was Talway Jones place yet known 
as such, and two miles below that yet on the creek the Mission school that 
had been kept by Rev. Meeker. He was now a stout young man of twenty- 
three past and alive to all the dangers of Border Ruffianism in Kansas. I 
presume he gave his name and become one of the Palmyra Free State 
guards at once. This was a town on the Santa Fe trail a couple of miles 
north of Baldwin the largest town south of Lawrence and which died with 
the Trail. Young Wiggans landed in the Territory with less than $15 with 
cabin to build and provision to get for both house and team. Before he had 
hardly got settled he responded to the cry of Lawrence for help to defend 
themselves against the Border Ruffian posse that Sheriff Jones called out 
from Missouri to help him retake the Branson rescuei's. Charles W. Dow 
and Thomas W. Barber both peaceable free state men living south of Law- 
rence were killed at different times, November 21st and December 6th and 
what was called the "Wakarusa War" 1855 raged with terrible excitement. 
The Palmyra company of free state men responded to the Lawrence call 
December 2nd and along with 800 others successfully warded off the invasion 
of the 1500 Missoui-ians so that the free state forces disbanded mostly by 
December 11th. Wiggans says that old John Brown and his four sons were 
there and that their place was in the trenches up on Mount Oread where 
the University buildings are now. Wiggan's absence however resulted in 
the death by starvation of his team. Before he had gone up to Lawrence the 
chief surveyor Mr. Pomerov and his force came through running the range 
lines north and south through Kansas cutting the country up into townships. 
Wiggans rigged up his compass and tested it with Mr. Pomeroy's getting 
the variations etc and that winter was able to do much surveying for his 
neighbors helping them to locate their claims for which he received pay. 



Later on as he got his shop running he had much work to do for the Indians 
en the several reserves south of him who soon found out that he was a 
master hand repairing gun locks and such like. This led some years later 
to his being appointed as the Government blacksmith for the Sac and Fox 
tribe of Indians. But in the spring of 1857 before he had got his land 
warrent from the government someone liked his Norwood claim so well that 
they paid him 800 dollars in gold for his rights and he removed to a new 
claim two miles west toward Centropolis near Minneola. This claim he im- 
proved, proved up-on paying $1.25 per acre and owned until 1867. It was 
here where he erected his blacksmith shop and lived until 1863. "Our fam- 
ily consisted of only one child then, , Thomas C, who married and lives near 
us; Our daughter Hattie H., born in 1865, married Wm. La Monte and lives 
at Argentine; George A., born in 1869, is married and lives near us, while 
the youngest son, Henry B., born in the 70's, married and settled in Okla- 
homa. We have eleven grand children one of which, Delbert Wiggans lives 
with us and helps to run the homestead." 

While running his blacksmith shop and business there near Mineola 
towards the close of the fifties, Robert Stevens who had taken a contract 
to build a great number of houses for the Sac and • Foxes up and down the 
different streams on their Reservations came to Mr. Wiggans and hired him 
to go down to Quindaro on the Missouri river and assist in removing the 
machinery of a grist mill that had burned down there to the Sac and Fox 
Agency to erect what in later years was known as the Holmes Saw Mill. 
The fire having injured some of the engine Mr. Wiggans had to repair it 
at the Lawrence shops. The two boilers and large 20 foot diameter fly wheel 
cast in two parts made this a noted saw mill in those days and its lumber 
helped to erect some of our oldest buildings here on the Sac and Fox Reser- 
vation. This was a several months job for Mr. Wiggans. The mill stood 
east of Quenemo on the south side of the Marias des Cygnes in the locality 
where later George Logan had his farm. 

Henry Wood Martin the Indian agent at Lawrence for the Sac and 
Foxes and other tribes of Franklin county appointed Mr. Wiggans Govern- 
ment blacksmith, at the Sac and Fox Agency March 1st 1863. He took the 
place of a Mr. Perrine and soon found out that it was a sort of "jack of all 
trades" position for he had to help make coffins and bury the Indians. Act 
as a peace maker and help the carpenter tie the big Mission boarding house 
(north building) to-gether with long inch iron rods, and run his shop be- 
tween times. Mr. Wiggans retains a very good knowledge of his six years 
life at Quenemo, and his story of various Indian traditions and happenings 
there until the Indians were transfered first the fall of 1869 would make a 
chapter longer than this to itself. 

Mr. Wiggans bought the claim he lives on (viz: the N. E. 14 of sec- 
tion 18, township 16, range 17,) the spring of 1869 of Henry Jones the Sac 
and Fox half blood interpreter for $1200. His mother Mrs. Jones lived on 
it several months at the last to help him hold it while he worked at Quenemo. 



Mrs. Jones was a pure Indian, a sister of old Chief Powesheik a Fox In- 
dian who was buried on the north side of the "110" crossing?. Powesheik 
was quite an Indian town there at the Junction in 1859. Mr. Wig^ans has 
lived on this farm more than 32 years and is well known all over that sec- 
tion of the country as a man of deep conviction and sound logic on whatever 
reform he takes hold of. 

Further Wiggans History. 

Notes from further conversation with Mr. Wiggans who insists that 
he is right in these items of history. 

Agent Martin came from Tecumseth, Kansas, and after my appoint- 
ment as blacksmith, from several years acquaintance with the Indians often 
acted on my suggestions. Dr. Albert Wiley was the Gov't physician but 
under Martin was forced to resign on account of his wife getting up some 
hubbub with the Indian half blood women. Then a friend of Martins from 
Tecumseth acted temporarily until 1866 when Dr. Fenn came and through 
my suggestion. Agent Martin appointed him. 

Sam Black never came to the Indian Reservation until the close of the 
war, I recommended Black as Deputy U. S. Marshall and he was appointed. 
I could talk and understand the Indian language very well. 

ORLANDO S. STARR was born in Clarkfield, Ohio, about 
1840. The son of Rory Starr and grandson of Smith Starr one 
of the very earliest pioneers of his town. 

He served in the civil war first in Co. B. 3rd 0. V. C, 2nd 
as Sergeant in the U. S. Marine River service to end of war. He 
was married to Mary E. Barker of same town Dec. 1866, one son, 
Allie Starr was born to them in Ohio. They moved to Kansas 
1869, and on to the Reservation in 1870. Two children, William 
and May were born to them here. Mrs. Libbie, Starr died April 
1883. Mr. Starr married about 1887 as his second wife Miss Jane 
Blackwell of Melvern. 

His children all live in the Richview neighborhood. They are 
all married. Allie Starr served in the Spanish American war, has 
been married twice. William Starr lives on the homestead, has 
a fine family of 4 or 5 children. May Starr married George Dil- 
lard, has a little girl name of Libbie lives on their own farm next 
adjoining Mr. Starr's, O. S. Starr and wife lived on the farm un- 
til 1910 when they moved to a nice village home in the west su- 
burbs of Melvern. 



THE SAUK INDIAN, "QUENEMO." 

EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1ST. 

History of the Sauk Indian Quenemo from which the town of Quenemo 
Osage County derives its name. 11 pp. 

The first prominent settler in our part of Kansas, Old Chief Keo kuk 1846 
with 2,000 emigrants. 

2. A series of early day articles by Judge Lawrence D. Bailey published 
by him in Garden City papers 1887 relating to this part of Kansas, very inter- 
esting. Reprinted by permission of the widow. 30 pp. 

3. Along the Santa Fe Trail Border Ruffianism. 10pp. 

4. The Quantrell Raid on Lawrence by Judge L. D. Bailey. 20 pp. 

5. Several newspaper articles and notices of books on the subject of 
the Quantrell Raid. 6 pp. 

6. List of the vicitims slain at Lawrence in the Quantrell Raid. 2 pp. 

7. The History of the Eldridge Hotel. 2 pp. 

8. Geo. W. Haines of Waverly gives an account of the pursuit of Quant- 
rells Gang. Page 82. 

9. Extacts from History of Osage Co. by Jas. Rogers. 83-84-91. 

10 List of others of Judge Bailey's articles not published. Page 85. 

11. More along the Santa Fe Trail, W. D. Jennersons story of the loot- 
ing and burning of Walton P. O. at Rock Creek, Spring No. 1 in 1863 by 
Anderson gang. 4 pp. 

12. Several letters of 1854-55 from Lotan Smith, J. M. Winchell and C. 
Albright about the American Settlement Co. Council City K Ty. to New York. 
6 pp. 

13. Personal experiences of Thomas R. Davis of Ohio at Council City and 
Burlingame in 1856. 4 pp. 

14. James H. Rogers Centennial History of Osage County published 
1876 in Osage City Free Press. This is full of the Early Day Pioneer events. 
37 pp. 

15. List of Osage County Office holders from the beginning to 1878 by 
Hon. Jas. H. Rogers. Page 139. 

16. Some additions to that list by C. R. Green. 140. 

17. Lucas Burnetts narrative of Early Days in California after 1856 in 
Kansas. 3 pp. 

18. Gov. Reeders District No. 7 and the 1st Election here in what is 
now Osage County Nov. 7, 1854. Page 144. 

19. The Keo kuk Family in Kansas and the Indian Ty. 



XII 




A group of Sac and Fox Indians up at the Omaha Exposition 
where was held an Indian Congress. Mrs. Fannie Whistler and 
son Guy, Mrs. Sarah Whistler and others are shown up to good 
advantage. Picture furnished by Mrs. Fannie W. Nedeau. 



Names of those in the Indian group, commencing at the left: 

1. Guy Whistler— Puy man ske, standing 

2. Mrs. Fannie Whistler— Meskooth, sitting 

3. Gertrude Washington standing 

4. Mrs. Jane Shaw--Pi oh kee, sitting 

5. Eunice Rice girl standing 

6. Wm. Shaw, husband of Jane, one of the councilmen of the 
Nation— Puy twa tuck sitting 

7. Edna Shaw, Httle girl sitting on floor 

8. A boy, one of the Shaws perhaps standing 

9. Mrs. Sarah Whistler— Saw pe quah sitting 

10. Joe Brown sitting on floor 

11. Sis Brown sitting 

In speaking of the different Traders with the Sac and Fox tribe in 
old Chief Keokuk's closing years, there was one that I have spoken of, 
Isaac G. Baker, who, as was the custom in those days of white men among 
the Indians a thousand miles from home, formed an alliance with an Indian 
squaw and for the time being had a housekeeper. I have heard this Indian 
squaw's name and I think she was of the Fox tribe. She bore him, at 
Greenwood in 1849, a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. Twin children were 
an unheard of event among Indians. The Interpreter's wife, Julia Good- 
ell, immediately took the girl to raise and in 18 months, at the death of 
the squaw mother, also took the boy. They grew up known as Fannie 
and Isaac Goodell, received a good education and attained a prominence 
in the tribe in later years of the tribal history. Fannie was married young 
to Alfred Capper. After she bore him five children, a separation ensued, 
perhaps over no greater difficulty than the desire of Mr. Capper to live 
in Kansas and Fannie with the tribe in Oklahoma. She was a woman of 
refinement and culture and no white woman had a better home with all 
the furnishings at the Sac and Fox Agency, where she entertained me in 
1903 while I was in the Nation getting history. 

She married John Whistler as her second husband, who at that time 
had a hundred thousand dollars worth of cattle and other property. Two 
children were born to her by this marriage. Her husband died in 1890. 
A few years later she married Mr. Nedeau, a man of French and Potta- 
watomie Indian blood, a merchant from St. Mary's, Kansas. She is now 
a widow in her comfartable home with children and grandchildren around 
her at the Sac and Fox Agency. Her picture is presented here and more 
history about her and her brother Isaac C. Goodell and their foster moth- 
er, Julia, is given under the head of the "Goodell Family." 



and family, Rowell Botbel, Joeepb Mc- 
Dooald, Jake Eieecu nod olber^, '■vtio 
remained there. A large number came, 



Aloiost Fifty Two Years a Continuous Resi- vie wed the country and left atjaio O 
rtent on His Original Cluim. In His £igbty- 
Eigtitb Year, and the Only One Now Living 



uarratur of ibo^e days 8ayd bhab ab 



Here Who Composed tne First Company of *'^«^«'' ^eveaty-five came and went away 
AduUs Who Came to ibe Site of Burlingame again that fall. Ttie diiticulty of get- 
November 4, 1854, H'ifiy-Vwo Years Ago.— ting moved ouo and team help geoor 
Sketched by C. R. Green, H istorian. ^^^^, ^.j^.j^.^d maoy from staying tb .re. 

JohaSmitb wa.borcJulyai, 1819, at •^"''" "^""''^ "^^^'^'^ Eliza Graham, 

,p u 1 i u « of Mercer couuty. Pa , July 7, 1847. 

fioga, PeDDt?y Ivaoia. He came from ■' ' •' ' 

., . . T7- .u 1 They had two childroo wheo bbey lefb 

Mercer couuty to Kansas with a iarge -^ -^ 

, . ., , . ., the East for Kansas, but ab Kaoias 

company, oo a boat that Drought tbem 

,, / . 1 4 1 XT Ctiv, where they stopped some weeks, 

to Kausas City, landiog early in No- • '' ^^ 

I ,Q-. o /.L the little bov, Ezra, sickened and died, 

vember,- 18o4. tlere many of the men .< > 

,,,,.,-„, . , ,.„ . bour children grew up and are still 

left their families and viewed different ^ ^ 

, .. T^ rr, 1 u living: William Harrison Smith, of 

pans of tDe Kansas Territory John 

o -^u J T.u- 1 ^. •. u J J Michigan Valley, Osage county, born 

Smith and Ithiel tstreit had arranged j. -^ j. 

., . L. . L. in Pennsylvania: Mary Smith, the Srst 

with young men to have their horses j i j 

, , . , , . ,, one born in Kansas, a maiden ladv and 

and wagons driven through fiom Penn- 

, ,„, ., , ^. home keeper for the father; frank, a 

sylvania. While waiting for things to , 

, 1 J • . J ^ • . J farmer, living two miles south of the 

become settled smith and Mreit joined , . •■ 

. ^ , , father, with a family of ten children, 

the hrst company and came out the , ^ . • . 

,-. r,-. 1 "■ J anJ Lizzie, the baby, who ha* been 

Santa re 1 rail to the proponed metropo ., .. ,„ ^r 

,.,._,, ~ 1 /-,- f, Mrs. M. r. Headington these many 

lis of the Southwest, "Couucil City," ^ , , , j. 

. . ,, , ^ years, and whose husband is well known 

which the American settlement Com- ,, ,. , ,. 

. ^ ^ . J . L n « tothe Burlingame public as e.xUounty 

pu'Jv had advertised in the East. As ., , ■, tt -, 

, ". . , ■ buperintenaent and U. b. rural mail 

Streit was one of the cnaio-meu m ,.j.ppigp 

laying off the first site, out by Peter g^, January, '55, Mr. Smith was able 

Kirbi's. the early arrivals found a ^^ ^^^^ ^i^ fa„,i,y o^t from Kansas 

blank prair.e wilderness. There were ^^^^^^^ stopping at George Bratton's for 

some fifteen or twenty men, women and ^ ^-^^ g^ ^^^j^ ^ ^,^i„j ^,.^j ^j^^^ o„ 

children who landed at the Swilzler gwitzler creek, southeast of Council 

Creek crossing, or near it, November city, which ho did nottry to hold later 

13, 14 and 16. How many are alive of ^^ ^j^ services were so much in de- 

that company in other places I can not ^.^^^ ^^j^^^ ^^^ ^^j^^, ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ on the 

tell, but in Burlingame close inquiry ^^^^ constantly. Before he moved hia 

leadH me to believe that Mrs. Mary family out he made various trips. Tne 

Hoover Pratt and Joseph Bratton are fjiataoce, seventy-five or eighty mile^ 

the only ones. They were children j,y the Santa Fe Trail to Kansas City, 

when they came. Of those who came allowed them to makea round trip each 

in 1855 '56 there were a great many, ^^^j^ g^ ,^^,,^^1 lo^jq Smith, the 

John Smith's immediate company of new agent of Council Ciby, out for one. 

adults were: Ithiel Streit, George Brat- ^,^q ^j^ a good deal of hauling for 

ton and family, James Bothel, Samuel Geo Bratton. Ithiel Streit, his friend, 

Allison and family, Absolom Hoover had, in the meantime, looked the coun - 



try over and found much mora desirable go. So that every one helped in some 
claims, up on Soldier creek, about four way. The teain was gone about two 
miles west of the Council City settle- weeks. 

ment. So, Mr. Smith sajs that on The first year Mr Smith followed 
January 28, 1855, he went there, slaked teaming back and forth on the Trail to 
off hi'=iclaim,thenextoneabove Sii-eii'p; Kansas City Larly in April be and 
and this claim is yet bis borne. Streit, with two loads of provisions, 

He managed to get a log cabin built were caught in a big snow storm, on 
and they were living in it by March 6, the Trail at VeatcheH. getting home, 
'55. His claim is the southwest one- however, without any loss other than 
quarter, section 18, township 15, range extra time and much hardship 
14, four miles west of Burlingame and Another time, about the end of his 
two miles from the Wabaunsee couriiy first day's drive towards Kansas Citv, 
line South of him lived Prank Smith he met a Mr. Fish, with an ox team, 
and father, Ami Smith, on Plum creek, overloaded with goods and his family, 
and who were also from Penusvi vania. who bargained with Smith for $10 to 
Biily Aikins lived north of him, and turn bank and carry bin family and 
three miles up Soldier creek, in the some baggage lo the Council Citv set- 
next county, lived the Mclntyre boys, tlement Ox teams at ihat time were 
O. H. Sheldon's claim a little later, not very plenty and cosi$75 00 to$80 00. 
was a mileand a half nortbeastof him, A man. howtver, was considered quite 
where the Santa Fe Trail crossed Sol- well off who owned such a team, for 
dier creek. Here is wLere he brought horses required much grain, were often 
his bride. O H. Sheldon rvas a promi- stolen and more often died 
uen-i man later on, representing both Mr, Smith says: "I got .Joseph Mc 
Osage and Wabaunsee counties as a Donald to come with his ox team in the 
State Senator, but he had to begin spring of 1855 and, with my team of 
with an ox team and make his living horses ahead, we broke oneaoreof sod 
along with the rest of the pioneers. Some of this we dug over with a bO'» 
He died in 1878 and planted to a garden with various 

When the first Border Ruffian raid seeds that we had brought from Penn- 
was made on Lawrence, Kansas, in No- sylvania Fields of old ground in corn 
vember, 185,5, there was some sort of thatseasrn were very scarce f knew 
a company organization at Council City of on If Fry iV McGee's at "110'" cross 
by which the men were to assist each ing and J, Frele's at Switzler cre< k. 
Free State settlement against the Mis- Weather was favorableand ever vtbing 
Bouri Ruffians. Lawrence sent out a growing nicely when along about the 
call for help and as may be learned by first of Jur.e I noticed toward the mid- 
the reader on previous pages of this die of the day millions of (ibjects gli«t 
work, the Council City company re- ening in the sunlie-ht They were '^o 
sponded. .John Smith was sick, but dense it was like lookinP' throueh a 
furnished the team for O H.Sheldon piece of smoked glass. These obj»?cts 
to carry the provisions and baggatre came near,?r and nearer until in a very 
for the company. Ami Smith was too short time grasshoppers were alight- 
old aiiO feeble, but Itbiel Streit got ing and helping themselves to our ear- 
him tostay with his folks that he might den. With broom, brush and slicks 



we "shoo'd" and beat them but it wai* cash or a ItiO acre land warrant, but 
of no use for a.s soon &» oce batcb wat? bought a warrant for $160 of G. W. Pad- 
gone another took its place, so thatour dock, of Lawrenc.i, paying him forty- 
garden was taken right oefore our eyes eight per caut. interest annually on the 
Not only our garden but all ihe gar- debt This warrant I used in entering 
dons around us and fields of corn, every my land, buteomeyears later I received 
green thing except the prairie grass, notice from the government that the 
A hour the third day they began to rise warrant wa^ a fraudulent one and I had 
up and fly away, and oh what desola- to raise and pay $200 at once. Having 
tion they luft behind. We planted and paid Mr, Paddock, I could not recover 
raised some things later ou. anything from him. 

'Later in the season I hired Henry "The winter of 1856 and '57 was a very 

Smith to come and break five acres for trying period for us. I took sick in the 

me. The nexispring(1856). O H Shel- fall and was poorly all winter The 

don, with his ox team, put it in corn cabin was cold and my wife had to put 

and tended it for me. It was pretty' forth great exertions toget us through, 

dry and came up badly, but we had a Our horses died for want of grain and 

good crop of pumpkins By 1857 we care. I sold my wagon to O H. Shel- 

had t;M) acres to farm but my team was don for $75 00 on credit 1 borrowed 

dead and I was not able lo buy another, money of Mr. Aikens and bought two 

"Our log cabin. with a lean lo, wasour cows with bull calves by their side at 

home for seventeen years, [t was some $20.00 each. Thus I had a prospective 

years before I got a good floor in it. team of oxen, but the next winter one 

then it was wtiat was called a puncheon of the calves got killed I made ox 

floor, being oak slaves about four feet yokes, ox bows and cut cord wood for 

lonsr and six inches wide, shaved and others, any work that I could get and 

jointed to make a good tight floor, do to keep us alive. 

(C. R Green has a part of one of these "It was a ereat advantage having such 
old oak puncheons of .John Smith's in fine timber on Soldier Creek. No one 
his museum ) T had a claim of excel- knewanytbing aboutourcoal. Iffound 
lent land well timbered along Soldier in any of the wells or crossings out on 
(";rp<=-k and mv cabin was over on the the hillsi*ie, little thought was given to 
south side of theclaim, butlater on we its advantages as fuel. Everybody 
got a half section line road through burned wood So manv came here in 
from Burlingame westward ■some miles those early years that got down sick 
and on this on the north side of my with fevers and died or left to return 
place I built mv new house. My son- East that «pe could hardly organize any 
in law. M T Headina'ton, now owns a society in the coontry. When I left 
portion of my original claim. When I the East it was to make a home in the 
built m> frame house, in 1872. that I West. I never had any help from east- 
live in, I used all native frame material ern friends. We lived tV.rough the 
from my own timber. hard years some way. My wife died 

"The land surveys of 1857 58 obliged Nov. 7.1896, but my daughter Mary 

us to settle them with the government keeps house for me. 

at the rate of $1.25 per acre or a land "In 1858 theGermaos cameand opened 

warrant T did not naveeither the $200 up the town of Havana. Tbetownsite 



a mile square cornered to the north 
west of me. They built a lar^e mill of 
stone and other buildia^s on the Santa 
Pe Trail, were building until I860 when 
they stoppud and a few years later the 
whole business was sold for nonpay- 
ment of taxfi!^ The Havana school 
nou.se, No 8, now occupied the mIco, 
foui- aud one tialf milHH west of Burlin- 
game. Tbw leadintr men of this enter- 
UVifo. were P W lijid brink, Mr. Hul- 
seeurler, Auj^ur^t Meyer, Moran Beach, 
Mr Aierhold, Peter Polt, Mr. Sey- 
wester. Our neifrb boihood [^ known 
yet a« Havana " 

la concludiua Mr. John Smith's 
sketch of his early daya I feel that as 
an old Hettler he i? to be commended 
for the happy .social manner in the way 
that he has the la^it two or three years 
circulated in our gatherings in his ef- 
forts to make the old pioneers from 
widely separated settlements acquaint- 
ed and the meeting- satisfactory; peek- 
ing no office, yet be helped all. A man 
of firm convictions, he is ever on the 
side of temperance and good citizen- 
ship, and interested in seeing that the 
true facts of pioneer history here are 
presented in a correct manner. 

C. R. Green. 
Lyndon, Kansas, Nov. 20. 1906. 



BURLING A ME COLONY 
Material on hand uf the following 
pioneers; som complete, others lack 
ing some data, U'^f^•i•,' publicdi ion: 
H-nry D Shetiiird 
Absiiloiri ll(K)%'ef and d^u.'litpf. Mrr* 
Mary P,- a- 1 . 
James Wuvhel 
Abial T. Du'.t.on 
Wilis Levi'i..i^ lawyer 
Si IPS N Hills 
William H Lord. 
Pniliip C Schnyior 
Mrs L^vi Em pie 
Mrs. Isabella Ratnbo Mercer. 
Wiiliam Thompson, judge 
Alfred M. .larboe 

History of early-day teachern, Mr- 
Ida Perris, iho .lames R)ger«i family. 
Elizabeth Clousing Eden, the San'a F^ 
Trail, and other settlers arour.d tb.- 
"110" and further away 

C H. Green. Historian 
November, 1906 




REV. ISAAC McCOY, wife and boy. Missionary 
to the Sac and Fox Indians, these 20 years or 
more. He is an Ottowa Indian while his wife,who 
was Mary Thorp, is a half breed Sauk Indian. 



school system is proliablc, but what I 
go by is tlie ortieial record, and I hope 
s(tmc day our county fathers will cause 
ail otticial list from the very tirst of all 
our county otlicersfrom 1 8o9,as substan- 
tiated by the county cleric's record, to 
be published, C. R CJreen. 



THE JOHN DREW FAMILY, AS 

CONNECTED WITH OSAGK 

COUNTY HISTORY. 



Mr. lohn i>rew was born in Lond(m, 
Knyrland, April IK, ITStS. and died at tlie 
residence of his daujjhter, Lizzie (Mrs 
AV I' Deminjf), in the city of Burlin- 
yama, Kansas, October l, 1897, about 
9S years and 6 montiis old ' i is wife 
Sarah Pope, was also born in L(m- 
don in 1804 and died at their home, 
near Hurlingame, July lU 1874. Thus, 
in a brief way, reads a record of one of 
the oldest pioneers of Osage county. 
A familiar form to the citizens of the 
county, as yeneially some one of his 
boys tilled .some county ottice down to 
almost the date of his death. In the 
late yeaiis of his life he had remarkable 
stronu'th of mind and body for one of 
his age, and often went off on long 
trips or visits entirely alone; once in 
the eighties to the Exposition at New 
Orleans, and his letters to the news 
papers, full of descriptive matter, were 
interesting and welcome to the public 
Thus was his old a e made young 
again and full of honors, for his sons 
never disgraced the name in otlice nor 
did they ever retire from salaried posi- 
tions without the public having en- 
joyed such riches wi h them. When 
visiting at the home of his son, .loe 
Drew in Lyndon. I have seen him 
many a time taking his walk for exer- 
cise, with the granflsons around him, 
and in the household he was always 
surrounded the same wav. Sinaller 



than his sons in stature, his grandsons, 
in their teens.of ten outranked him, but. 
never in a world of useful information 
or admonition. 

Hon. .lames Rogers.historian of Osage 
county, in his C'enteiuiial history of 
1876, closes his remarks on one of the 
pages about Hurlingame pioneers with 
the words that it was not time to write 
up the Drew history. 1 didn't think 
it would fall to me to furnish it thirty 
years later; but when a father and 
three sons, as p ominent as Wm. Y., 
•losiah R nd (Jeorge 1. Drew, all pa.ss 
away in such a few years and the sons 
and their families removed from the 
county,so that I hear of only one grand- 
son of that name now living here, then 
is it not time s me permanent record 
should be made of this pioneer family? 
The .sons named above have all favored 
me in their lifetime with plenty of in- 
formation about the early history here. 
Kspecially is this true of George J. 
Drew, whom I never met, but who, two 
j^ears before his death, from his Wash- 
ington, D. C. home, favored me with a 
number of letters 

.lohnDrew was married inLondon and 
two children. George I . and Sarah, we e 
bo n to them in that city; the daughter 
died In 18.H2Mr Drew, wife and son, 
George, came to New York and lived 
in various places in the East until he 
came to Rurlingame, May IH, 18.")r),with 
his two sons, William Y.,and losiahR. 
In the fall George brought the family. 
John Drew took a claim adjoining Hur- 
lingame, in Section 10 The family at 
ti)at time consisted of George .1., aged 
25, William Y ,21,Josiah, l!i. Elizal)eth 
(Mrs W. V. Deming,) Ki, Naomi, 11, 
who was drowned July ."{, 18.">8; Cliarles 
P., 12, of Topeka, and Joseph S., 10, of 
Arizona 

Mr. Drew and his .sons became inter- 
ested in the city of Rurlingame the 



next year and when Schuyler & ( a iff 
got then- sawmill in operation Mr 
' Drew was among the tirst to buy land 
' and erect a good frame house. Tlie boys 
who were old enough secured home- 
stead claims in the vicinity, but made 
the home their headquarters I have 
very few particul rsof Mr JohnD ew's 
life during those early days He and 
his wif(^, two of the so s and one 
daughter were members of the Baptist 
church. Mr Drew Hod the office of 
justice of th peace and road oversee . 
William Y. Drew, in his interestins' 
-.ketch, very fully covered those early 
l:;ys, and is as follows: 



NARRATIVE BY W. Y. DREW. 

The write was born in New York 
:ity, March 7, 1834, so .chat April io. 
.855, when father, .foe and myself 
tarted fo'- Kansas I was past 21 years. 
Ve traveled by the river to Albany; to 
leveland by the Xev,' Yo k Central- 
Cincinnati by the Cleveland, Colum- 
•us ct incinnati iailroad,and by boat 
gain to St. L uis. where we joined a 
olony en oute to Kansas from Cin- 
innati and Pennsylvania ■ o Kansas 
ity we rode on the steamer Hartfo d, 
light draft boat of 3i feet. 'Ihe pilot 
as unable to run nights. Daniel ~ c- 
raw, our companion f cm Xew York, 
led of cholera on the boat. Vie were 
'n days making the t-ip to Kansas 
ity, where we landed, but the boat 
ntinued on up the Kaw liver with 
le Manhattan colony. 'Iheboatafte - 
ards was burned nea- Pawnee or in 
ie vicinity of Fort Riley. We hired 
team at Kansas City and sta^ ted for 
mncil City, but Ijefore we reached 
lere we met I'billip Schuvler and re- 
med with him to Kansas City He 
dbeen out and located his claim and 
IS going Ka.st to close up his business 
d then make hi.s h,nru> ;,, Kansas 



Wy father and .loe arrived in Council 
City May IS, 1855, but I remained in 
the city, bought an ox team for our use, 
and did not reach home until later 
We located on the west one-half of 
■southeast one-fourth Section 10, ;,5, i.|, 
eiglity acres. Abel Polly took the east 
eightyof the same quarter. Tlie oun- 
cil City folks tried todrive usou,claim- 
ing that we v.ere on their town site, 
but there were four of i;s pretty well 
armed and we sta^ ed there and "it was 
our home for several years. Phillip 
Schuyler had purchased George . rat- 
ton's rights and took the claim that is 
now a part of the city of Burlin^ame 
lie removed there in the winter of 
1«55-'5H and started the sawmill in 
which S R Canitr was a partner in '5',: 
Father's hou.se was one of the first 
large buildings erected from the lum- 
ber of the mill. It was 24x30, one and 
a half story high, and I think it was 
the third frame house construclrd of 
native lumber. 

I had the ague nearly two years, end- 
ing wiih an attack of typhoid fever. 
There was a good deal of destitution. 
Our place of holding public meetings 
was the Council City house and as the 
big town .scheme of that company failed 
we were determined some other town 
should be built up on the Santa Fe 
Trail at the Switzler creek crrissing. 
Father was oneoftheBurlingameTown 
company. After tiie Brooks-Sunuier 
affair in Congress, IVIay, 185f5, Hon. 
An.son Burlingame, of Massachusetts, 
was out here in Kansas, perhaps as 
late as 1857, and gave us a rattling old 
Abolition speech; so, about April.1857. 
we held a meeting in Playford's board- 
ing house and named f)ur town after 
him, thus committing our settlement 
to Free State principles. Schuyler iS: 
Cannilf run the mill steadily and the 
."wn began to grow. SamiiVl AllLsc-n 



\v 



of the liist storekeepers, on 

Polley place. The twoBolh- 

d a store, tlien others. I rt- 

thit our folks bought a st(jve 

days of a Methodist minister, 

urtli ,for wliieh they paid$40. 

to the war at the first call in 

steen of us decided to go in 

e started otT afoot for 'opeka, 

Lawrence, where we joined 

1 Kansjis Infantry. his was 

or'Ji^ani/.atinn: the witli a 

ai,d Artillery ctmipany. We 

or three moiiths, with an un- 

]\j: that it sliould be a three- 

i nient. I served five and one- 

lis. None of the sixteen died 

lirst term of service. At 

of V>-ilson*s Creek, our lirst 

n.'^agement, there' was n' t a 

ither rank, up or down, for 

nenibers, who was not either 

or sliifhtly wounded or wlio 

lave bullet holes through his 

except myself: not one. W en 

lent came home to reorganize, 

inained, I among the number. 

"i2. some forty or more of us, 

r auKl Burlingame. went- into 

KansasCavalry, Co. I. ( heir 

ave been given on preceding 

he officers of the company 

stain .Ioy,of GrasshopperFalls, 

1). McAfee, of Topeka, and 

'. Y. Drew.) I served three 

il one month, coming home 

?i<)ber 1, 1805, as First Lieut. 

rough the whole service with- 

ueli. Towards the last a great 

our command became otlicei-s 

ents made up of negroes or 

but my company asked me to 

ath them, 

h»th of .January, 1870, i went 
e as county clerk,serving three 
ling out in 1 ><"(!. the county 
kremov(>d from l>urlingame to 



Lyndon tour or liv'- months l)eIore 1 
retired from ollice. and wliile 1 went 
t(» Lyndon. I did not remove my fan^ily 
there. I had some pretty rough times 
while in orlice. though I was elected 
the third term without opposition. 
At one time in the county seat tight, 
in order to get possession of importjint 
papers in the clerk's care, Osage City 
contestants rot out a writ of replevin 
and, with the sheriff, forcibly broke 
open the iron safe and thus took the 
papers. At anotiuM- time an armed 
force of several hundred from Lyndon 
and beyond, started for this place to 
take away the county records, which 
the people of this part of the county 
determined they should not do, even 
though blood be shed. Armed men pa- 
trolled Burlingame and watched every 
stranger who came int(» the towii. night 
or day, in some cases arrested them 
and held them prisonei-s for a day. 
Captain Edie, tlie county sheriff, and I 
went down to the belligerent forces, 
in camp on the Dragoon, and talked 
up a compromise by which another 
court decision was to be obtained, and 
which. eventually, gave the county seat 
to Lyndon, i uvlingame had been the 
county seat for twelve years and was a 
fair center at that time <if the actual 
population of the county. The Sac »& 
Fox Reserve being Qj)en-d up in the 
early seventies made an openi g that 
way for a cou.ty seat contest. Later 
in life, i the eighties, I ru a luml^er 
yard in Que' emo, and never saw any 
feeling manifested against me or ot her 
Burlingame men for the course we 
took to hold the county seat there 
« 

THE FAMILY KECORD OV WM. Y. UREV/. 

Mr Drew was first marrit d to Miss 
Martha Helen Pomeroy.Septcml)er24, 
ISf,:?. She died September lu, ISS«5. at 
Burlingame. Six children were born 



by tliis union, four of whom are now 
living, as follows: Bertha Naomi, who 
marriedClyde Smith,son of H.B.Smith, 
six miles north of Lyndon. He died, 
leaving the widow with three children, 
They reside in Riverside, California. 
Gilbert Pomeroy Drew, born 1870; mar- 
ried Miss Catherine Morgan, of Oskosh, 
Wisconsin. They have one son. He 
is a broker and agent representing the 
mining interests of Arizona and Cali- 
fornia, having his office at 15(5 Broad- 
way, New York* ity. Mabel Drew, un- 
married; lives with her widowed sister 
at Riverside. -lervis W Drew, born 
September 30, 18S0; went to thePhilp- 
piiies in 1898, a member in Co. F of the 
famous 20th K ansas. He was with that 
command through all its battles and 
campaigns, doing his duty so well that 
he was promoted to the position of 
sergeant. When the regiment came 
home he remained and August 15, 1899 
joined Troop H, 11th United States 
Cavalry. He went through all the bat- 
tles and skirmishes, untouched, only to 
be stricken with disease from which he 
died in a hospital at Neuva Carceres, 
on the island of Luzon, May 24, 1900. 
When the remains arrived in Burlin- 
game a public funeral was held, .July 8, 
1901, at which many testimonials to 
his life and services to the country 
were given, notably an oration by Judge 
William Thomson, which may be seen 
in the Burlingame papers of that date. 
Ethel E , W. Y, Drew's youngest child 
by his tirst marriage, was a young lady, 
living at home, wheni interviewed her 
father on New Year Day, 1903. Mr. 
Drew was married the second time 
July 2, 1888, to Mrs. Anna S. Morgan, 
whocanieto liurlingame in 1877. Her 
maiden name wasLoucks Three chil- 
dren were born to this union, two being 
dead, and a little girl, Mary W., in the 
home. At the time I called on Wm. Y. 



Drew for these notes he was interested 
in mining property in Arizona. I be- 
lieve he had been out there a year or 
two, but he w;is then on the eve of 
moving to California, where he died at 
Rivei-side,Augustl(i, 1904, and is buried 
in that citv. 

Wm. Y. Drkw. 

* * 
GEOKGIC J. DIIKW NOTKS. 

I know very little about George 
Drew's personal history. Upon appli- 
cation in 1903, when The Enterprise 
was publishing the liistory of Co. J.'s 
service in the Border Ruffian war of 
1855-'5(i and other pioneer history con- 
nected with i'Urlingame, no one re- 
sponded more quickly, with numerous 
notes and history than did George J. 
Drew, He was well supplied with note 
books and had a good memory, and I 
gave his version of the above mentioned 
history, under his name. He furnished 
me his photograph, from which I had 
a half-tone cut made that will be used 
in the book, "Early Days in Kansas," 
I had republished James Rogers" Cen- 
tennial History of Osage County, some 
thirty-seven pages ©f octavo matter, 
and found from showing it to .several 
old pioneers that there were some errors 
in it; I sent a copy to George Drew in 
Washington, who, after reading it, 
made a number of corrections. I will 
use but two ()!• three here; 

I 'age 4 -" JohnFrele's cabin( who was 
the Hrst settler on Switzler creek) was 
occupied in the fall of 1855 by the 
Drews until their cabin was com- 
pleted." "I neverknewthat I.B Titus 
was a proslavery man: ask Mr. Streit 
or Will Drew." 

Pages 7 and 8— 'Tiiese nominations 
were for the Free State Legislature, 
and the caucus was held at the Council 
House, near the close of the year 1855. 
Mr. (afterwards Majoi- L. D. Joy.) and 



in\ >elf were the tellers. The tight was KansasCavalry, along with forty or fifty 
l).i\veen the Council City party and others from the vicinity of Biirlingame. 
tlK' settlers on Switzler creek. Mr. He was wounded Deceniher 7, 1W2, 
1 l;iven was the Council City candidate, at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, though not 
( Ml counting the tirst hallot the tellers seriously, .lune 20, lS(i4, he was pro- 
t'niind more ballots in tiieir hats than moted and made I'irst Lieutenant, ISth 
ti i.re were voter.s, and without open- V. S. colored troops. ^Yhen his war 
them, and on their own volition, serviceterminated. lean not tell. The 
-ed the ballots into the fire: a great 11th KansasCavalry did i ot return 
N\ M)d fire (m the health. As there home till September, "(i.",, and Lu-ut. 
siriued to be no wav to defeat Mr. Drew's regiment did service until Feb- 
ilaven in this caucus, the Switzler ruary 21, ISdd. (All this war record I 
(Mvc'k men gave a comnlimentary vote had to compile from b(.(.ks.) lie was 
to Mr. Amos I'ollv. At a meeting held appointed a clerk in the War Depart- 
in the evening of the same dav, at the ment at Washinirton, D. C.. March J>, 
home of Mr. Titus, on Switzler creek, 1880, from Osage county, which was his 
Dr. Toothman, who lived on Switzler, legal home until the day of his death. 
a mile north of Council Citv. wasnomi- He was married in that city October lb, 
nated. If T remember correctly, the 1884, to Miss Ella May Fraser. They 
District comprised the whole south- had one daughter who died in her 
west part of the tcrritorv. with two eighthyear. George . I. Drew died leb- 
senatorsand three representatives. As ruary 10, 1^05, of diabetes, and was 
the mail carrier stopped at the Titus buried in one of the beautiful ccme- 
hotel the names of the nominees were teries at Washington, 1). V. 
sent bv him to the other precincts, In 1878 aC^mnty Historical Society 
Dr Toothman's name being sent in- was organized at lUirlingame, with 
stead of Mr. Haven's, so that with a James Rogers president and (.eorge.). 
divided vote at home and none at the Drew secretary. A year or two before 
other places, Mr. Haven was defeated his death Mr. Drew forwarded to me 
and soon afterward went back Fast, eleven leaves, cut from his own mem- 
On the following 4th of .Tulv (185(1.) the oranda book, containing certain min- 
Le-islature met at Topeka. when Dr. utes and resolutions of various meet- 
Toothman refused to go and many of ings, d<,wn to March 2. 1880 which was 
the citizens gave him a piece of their about the date of George Drew s ap- 
minds. He soon after left and went to pointment to a position in ^^a^'•'l^- 
Wvandotte. I never heard of him ton, and as James Rogers died .luly i., 
afterwards " that same year (aged r»l years.) the so- 

' George Drew to..k a claim some dis- ciety seemed to have ceased Jo work, 
tance out of P>U!-lingamc and sold it to Mr. Drew said they had an old trunk, 
somesettlerafter the survey was made, full of valuable manuscript pictures 
He was never a farmer any length of papers, hc.ks. etc.. and that they had 
time. During the earlv history of the been left in Absalom Hoovers care, 
county I think he filled the ollice of On New Year's day. li'.n. I visited the 

deputy He was a good scholar Hoover homestead and made diligent 

•ind nfain writer. 1 find his name men- inquiry for the p:u)ers by Mr. Dn w s 
iiuHKl m thccountv,.n.ceedingsottcn. directi.ms. but no o.u- knew nnytlung 
lie served his country in Co. 1. lHh about them. 



h 



The minutes of the last meeting men- 
tion Harrison Dubois, Peter Kirby, 
D. G. Griswold, M. Rambo. J. Bush, 
Lilly, E. Mercer, G. •!. Drew, and Jas. 
Rogers present, the meeting being held 
in Rogers' office, with Mr. Dubois as 
president and Drew secretary. A lec- 
ture course was to be arranged for the 
second Tuesday in each month, by Jas. 
Rooers. The society had then been 
running two years. A printed consti- 
tution accompanied these leaves and, 
before closing, it extends an invitation 
to the public to attend a meeting Sep- 
tember a, 1880, when Mj.Rodgers would 
give a continuation of his historical 
sketches and Mr. Mings one, of his fa- 
mous trip to Leavenworth in 1856, as 
well as other valuable papers. At one 
of the very first meetings work was 
laid out, as follows, and persons ap- 
pointed to do it: 

1st. To procure photos and biograph 
ical sketches of the first twelve white 
persons born in Osage county— Mr .John 
Hoover and Miss E. Bratton. 

2. Biographical sketch and photo of 
William Whistler, with an account 
of the Sac and Fox Indians, including 
photos and mementoes of that tribe - 
?>Ir. J. Rc)gers. 

To procure photos of each of thecounty 
officers,with biographical sketches,and 
also of their wives, as follows: 

3. GountyCommissioners— H. A. Bil- 
lings. 

4. District Judges-J. Rogers. 

5. Probate Judges— R .T.Playford. 
0. County Clerks, Wm. Y. Drew. 

7. District Clerks (of court)— J. M 
Chambers. 

8. Sheriffs -Harrison Dubois. 
9 County Attorneys— s. D. Wright, 

(later) -W. Johnson. 

10. Recorders— Wra ChatlJeld(latcr) 
.1. Nelson. 

11. Treasurers— C. C. Crumb 



12. Co. Superintendents— P. Kirbj^ 

13. Coroners- Dr. Jackson. 
14 Surveyors— Charles Fox 
15. Senators- Louis Finch. 
Ifi. Representatives -C. Rogers 
17 Editors-J. Rastall 
To procure tiles of the following pa 

pers published in Osage county: 
'8. Lyndon Signal— HarrisonDubois 
1!). Osage Ob.server-Peter Kirby. 

20 Lyndon Times— Peter Kiiby 

21 Shaft of Osage City -J. Rogers. 

22 Free Pre.s.s— J. Rogers. 

23. Osage Chronicle— J. R stall 
To procure photos and biograpliical 

sketches of our soldiers, as follows: 

24. Co. i, Old Free State Guard of 
1855— Geo. J. Drew. 

25. Campaign and .soldiei-s of 1850— 
M. Rambo. 

2(i.— The 2nd Kansa.s-R.T Playford 
27. Co. I. nth I'lansas Cavalry —John 

Crumb. 

. 28. Soldiers of other commands— T 

Mitchell. 

29. Military olljcers from other com- 
mands during the War of tiie Rebel- 
lion— J. li. Drew. 

30. Our dead .soldiers— J. E Bush. 

31. To procure a picture of the old 
Council House—.!. Rogers. 

Historical accounts of the various 
settlements in Osage county, with biog- 
raphy and photos of its early settlers 
i lid views of buildings: 

32 Osage City— Charles Martin. 

33. Burlingame— James Rogers. 

34. A rvonia settlement— JolinReece. 

35. Barclay settlement -H. K iMc- 
Coiniell 

30, Olivet settlement-Dr. Sweezie. 

37. Melvernsettlem't— AsherSmith, 
(later) Lem Warner 

38. Quenemo— JohnC. Rankin. 

39. Glass settlement— Dr Mathers. 

40. Lyndon settlement-S. B. Tower. 

41. General account of the sfttle- 



menl of the Sue and Fox Reserve- 
.1 udjre Blake. 
42. Kidijeway settlem"t ~ Dr.Jaeks'n. 
4:5. Carbondale settlement — A. P.. 
Sparaliawk. 

41. Superior settlement- .Tn().Mint:^s 
(later) 11. T. I 'lack 

4."). Scranton, Versailles, Richardson, 

Indiana City, Prairie (^ity— A. Baxter. 

4(>. Switzlersettlem't -Mrs.P.Kirby. 

47. Eureka sefmt-Absalom Hoover. 

4S. Havana settlement-JohnSniith. 

49. Prescott settlenvt— Dr Griswold 

After this business was transacted 

Mr. RofTors read, in conclusion, some 

ex! raels h\nn a history of the county. 

An annising conversation then took 

place, cansed by' a request that Jas 

Rofrers prepare a history of the Osa<?e 

or Santa Fe Hattalion of Militia. The 

secretary was assisted l)y .1 T. Hoover. 

C R Crekx. 



JOSIAII B. DKEW. 

.losiah R. Drew was born in New- 
York January 2.S, 1836, and came with 
his parents to Osa^e county in 1855. 
He was married November 13, 18G8, to 
Sarah E. Preston, of Ibnlinfiame. In 
May, i!)00, he removed to Uncompahf^re 
county, Colorado, to be near his sons. 
Early in the year m)'-i he was stricken 
with paralysis or apoplexy, and though 
he rallied for a time, it eventually 
caused his death, which occurred on 
.UnieH, 190.3. 

Tlie writer of these sketches knew 
.losiah Drew and his family well, they 
having removed to Lyndon in the 
eighties, where he filled the ollice of 
Deputy Treasurer for many years and 
also served two terms as County Treas- 
urer, closing his otlicial career about 
the year 1895. His family belonged to 
ihe Pres])yterian church in Lyndon, 
and the father, -lohn Drew, from his 
frequent visits to his son .losiah's fam- 



ily, was also a well-known attendant 
there I think four of their children 
were born in Lyndon Whenever we 
wanted any assistance in oi)taining 
Burlingame history, .losiah Drew was 
always willing and ready to aid us, and 
whenever any person, the counts over, 
was solicit inu linancial aid for some 
public good they were more apt to go 
to .losiah Drew Hrst, feeling assured 
that he would lend an ear and give aid 
if possible than to others who were 
worth ten times as much. So it came 
about that with all his oHice holding 
he retired from public life a poor man. 
Rut his family had good habits, a fair 
education and well grown uj), and, un- 
doubtedly, are'today as well otT' in their 
several chosen fields and homes as those 
whose parents started them out from 
.Osage county with thousands of dol- 
lars each I can testify to the excel- 
lent qualities of the mother in the fam- 
ily government and Christian training. 
Her old New Hampshire Preston stock 
left a good impression on he children 
.iosiah Drew often talked over his war 
experience and enjoyed going to all our 
soldier camp tires and reunions. He 
served in three organizations during 
the War of the Rebellion, from ISC.l to 
18W5: The 2nd Kansas Infantry, as pri- 
vate: Co. I, nth Kansas Cavalry, as 
sergeant, and 2nd and lirst lieutanaut 
of the '8th U. S. colored troops. Of 
his personal experiences during all 
these war campaigns I have never 
written a word and I do not know that 
Mr. Hrew ever did. He helped me to 
secure nnich interesting Hurlingame 
history but he never gavi' ;uiy of a per- 
sonal character 

Eight children were born to this 
couple; a daughter, who died in in- 
fancy; Albert, a young man, died iti 
the prime of his manhood, in 189(5, at 
Uiverside, California; Addie married 



Mr. Gatch, and resides at lOG-i West 
Fifth St., Kiverside, California, and 
whicli,when tlie mother was in Lyndon 
in 1905 said would he the address of 
herself and two younger sons, Deming, 
aged 17, and George 23, for the present. 
Ernest H. and Owen A. Drew went to 
Colorado some years ago, they married 
there, and have ranches. Owen has 
two children, both boys. They live in 
Montrose county, near Old Foit Craw- 
ford. The noted Gunnison tunnel and 
canal that the Government is building 
to recover, by irrigation, a great tract 
of the Uncompahgre desert country, 
passes through Owen's farm. Ernest 
Drew livesatDurango,Colorado. They 
have one child, a daughter. I think I 
heard that he was in the employ of the 
Pvailroad company. Leon E. is also 
married. They have one child. The 
three boys were married about the 
same time, but not to any of our Osage 
county girls. Leon's home is in Ari- 
zona. I have not given these chil- 
dren's names in the order of their birth. 
When Josiah Drew died the Burlin- 
game papers, June IS, 190.3, contained 
good obituary notices and one of them 
concludes with, "Mr. Drew was a large- 
hearted man, kindly by nature and de- 
voted to his familv " 



young husband died and was buried on 
the first anniversary of their marriage. 
He also left a little daughter, seven 
weeks old, which only lived to be six 
months old. Mrs. Densmore became 
the wife of W. P. Deming on June 10, 
1868. They lived on a farm one mile 
east of town until 1889, when they 
moved to Burlingame where they have 
since resided. Mrs. Deming has been 
a member of the Burlingame Baptist 
church since its organization in Au- 
gust, 1857; in fact, she is the only living 
member of the little band of ten which 
formed its membership. They were: 
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Fish, Mr. ai^.d 
Mrs. John Drew, George J. Drew, Mrs. 
Minerva Titus, Mrs. Lydia Playford, 
Miss Helen Tisdale, later Mrs. Peter 
Kirby, and Miss Elizabeth M. Drew. 
. * . 



31KS. WILLIAM V. DEMING. 

Next younger than Josiah, the third 
of the sons of John Drew, was Eliza- 
beth M , nciwMrs. William P. Deming, 
of Burlingame. She was also born in 
Boston, on July 17, 1839, and vvas,tl)ere- 
fore, a young woman, yet in her teens, 
when she came to Kansas with her 
parents in 185(). On April 15, 18()0, she 
was married to Nathan Densmore, a 
young man who iiad come to Kansas 
from Pennsylvania in 1 855. Tlieir mai-- 
ried life was of brief duration, as tlie 



NAOMI DBEAV. 

A sad recollection in the history of 
the Drew family is the death by drown- 
ing of the youngest daughter, Naomi, 
which occurred on July 3, 1858. Naomi 
was born August 11, 1841 At the time 
of her death she was an attractive 
young woman, scarcely seventeen years 
of age. The accident wliich resulted 
so fatally for her occurred at a Fourtii 
of July celebration on the Dragoon, 
where the Trail crossed, about three 
miles south of Burlingame. The peo- 
ple of Superior had invited Burlin- 
game to join them in a celebration. 
About two hundred people had already 
gathered, when the Drew people, witli 
(Jharlie Playford and the young .school 
teacher, Clarke, drove info the grove 
with an ox team hitched to a wagon. 
As they came to the crossing, the oxen, 
hot and tormented by Hies, turned 
sharply to the left and plunged into 
the creek. At this place is a hole over 
twenty feet deep, known today hs 
ITardcMibi'Odk's pool. The wauoii box 



iloulcd and overturned, precipitatins- 
all of the occupants into the watei" 
Elizabeth was almost drowned before 
she was rescued and Naomi sank and 
was caught by underbrush at tlie bot- 
tom. An Indian, roaming through the 
woods, came up and. divining the trou- 
ble, dove and secured the then lifeless 
body of Miss Drew. Drs. E. l>. Slieldon 
and Kerr were on the grounds ond were 
untiring in their efforts to resuscitate 
her. All tliought of a celebration was 
abandoned aiid the entire company was 
turned into a funeral procession whicli 
followed the grief-stricken children to 
the home of their parents, from whom 
they had departed but a short time be- 
fore with no thought of the dreadful 
caianniy which was so soon to fall 
upon them. 

* * 

CHARLES r. DRinV. 

Captain C. T. Drew, fourth son in the 
John Drew family, is well known to the 
I'Uilingamc people for the past twenty 
five years. lie did service in Co. I, 
nth Kansas Cavalry, as a corporal; 
was wounded in the engagement at 
Prairie Grove, December 7, 18(iL>, but so 
far as we could learn by the records, he 
saw tlie war through. Younger than 
many of the otliei- soldiers when lie 
came home, he retained much interest 
in militiiry matters, and for a number 
of years was captain of tlie militia com- 
pany thatBurlingame has always main- 
tained, and it was always a wolldrilled 
company, neat in appearance and ever 
on liand promptly. We presume the 
great number who went to the Spanish 
war from that section liad their early 
training under Captain Drew's direc- 
tion. Though Mr. Drew lives in To- 
peka he is deeply interested in the suc- 
cess of Co. B, Kan.sas National Guard- 
It was certainly an appropriate recog 
nition of Captain Drew's faithful serv- 



ices along these lines since the Rebel- 
lion that General W.S. Metcalf selected 
l)im as his lirst assistant in tlie United 
States Pensio.. Agency at Topeka. 

Charles P. Drew was married Sep- 
tember G, 1S(J8, to Miss Lucy A. Cable, 
who came to Kansas with her parents 
from Pennsylvania in 1«05. Five chil- 
dren were born to them; two are dead. 
Mrs. Nellie Spaulding lives at Kansas 
City. Elmer is engaged in the mercan- 
tile business at Overbrook. He married 
Miss Elizabeth Sliarpe, May Iti, 190(5. 
Mrs. Lizzie Shrader, whose liusband 
is a business partner of Elmer. Tliev 
have one son. 

* 

JOSEPH DREW. 

Joseph, the youngest of John Drew's 
family, seems to have struck out for 
hhnself in early life, and little is known 
of him. lie lives in Phoenix, Arizona; 
is married and their children number 
live. Not having any acquaintance 
with him, I will conclude my liistorv 
right here. 

While there have been many other 
Osage county pioneer families, with 
grown sons when they came here, none 
have furnished more soldiers to their 
country's call; none returned more 
good, law-abiding citizens to assist in 
building up Osage county than the 
John Drew family. And, when father, 
at the age of !)8J, and three .sons, (58 to 
To years of age, all pass away, so near 
together, it is time their history was 
written up,and I am sorry that a better 
pen than mine could not have dcmc it. 
C. R. Green. 

OSAGE COUNTY AFTER THE 
WA R— 18()(). 



During the Civil War that part of 
the Sac and Fo.x Indian Reservation, 
on the west in this county, known as 
the "Trust Lands," was thrown on 



the market and, owinj,^ to tbe disii-;ic- 
tions of war days, the attention of our 
prominent, honest American citizens 
was not on to the steahng-s of the "In- 
dian Ring" to the extent that it was 
lateronduringGrant'sadministration. 
1 do not wish to discuss, at any length, 
the matter here. Many citizens of 
Kansas would gladly Have taken the 
lands from the Government at tii-st 
hands at $i.50 to §2.50 per acre, but 
they were busy lieading slavery out of 
Kansas. The result was that large 
bodies of the Trust Lands went int(. 
the hands of such men as Perry Fuller 
& Co., 35,000 acres: McManus & Co , 
o4,841 acres; Hugh MeCullough, 7,080 
acres; R. S. Stevens & Co., 29,760 acres; 
1 homas Carney 40,000 acres, and others 
whose names show on the assessment 
roll of Superior township in 1865- '66. 
These several speculators paid for their 
goods and had a right to them, no 
doubt,but they got them,in some cases, 
at a cash outlay as low as 25c. per acre 
and at once demanded a price of froin 
$4.00 to $6.00 and $8.00 per acre from 
our pioneer settlers, and though they 
had their patents by 1865, yet when the 
assessor of Superior townsliip, which 
embraced all the Sac and Fox Reserve 
for taxation purposes in 1865-'67, made 
up their ]-eturns, as may be seen on the 
tollowmg pages, and put these several 
gentlemen down, as enumerated above, 
they refused to pay taxes for 1865. I 
find in the CountyCommissioncrs'Rook 
the following record: 

Burlingame, Kans., Jan'y 9, 1867. 
Board authorizes tlie Co. l reasure- 
to receive tax of Mr. John McManus 
for the year 1865, at the valuation of 
«1.2o per acre. But the next day the 
Board of County Commissioners exon 
erates lands of Messrs. Mc Manus, Thos 

and"S.'pf?'^"^ ^ ^^^ ^'"'ler & Co., 
and others known as the "Sac Lands.'' 



(For the year 1865Isuppose.-C. R. (i.) 
Total amount exonerated, $1,184 .05. 
Two or three montlis later the Board 
allowed Marsh M. Murdock $246.75 for 
printing the delinquent tax list; and 
only about a year before this the Board 
allowed bills to the amount of $2!):}.71 
for the survey and establisliment of a 
State road from Topeka to the Sac and 
Fox Agency. 

Thus did Osage county tax itself and 
in the end the pioneer settlers paid the 
tax CO improve and advertise the coun- 
try known as the Sac and Fox Reserve. 
So they were alert to organize this part 
into townships. The citizens of Bur- 
lingame had hard work to get the 
county seat established there and se- 
cure a little help outside of the county 
to erect a court house during those war 
years. I have heard Joe Drev/ tell 
that it Mas barely accomplished in time 
to give the volunteers a reception in it 
on their return at the close of the war; 
yet some of its rooms may have been in 
use a year. From the Book of County 
Board proceedings: 

"September 3, 1866: County Board, 
composed at that time of Wm. Lord, 
L. If. Elliott and John Perrill, author- 
ized Mr. Lord to buy three stoves and 
two dozen otHce chairs for the Court 
House: bill, $160.00, and October ], 
186(), Marinaduke Rambo was allowed 
$150.00 for making desks, benches, ta- 
bles, etc., for Court House." 

Result of election November 6, 1866. 
from book of County Board proceed- 
ings: Samuel J. Crawford and J. L. Mc- 
Dowell, the two party candidates for 
Governor get respectively 272 and 4(i 
votes, a total vote of 318. Jim Rogers, 
for Senator, 213 votes; L. R. Adams^ 
Clerk of the District Court, 297 votes; 
James Stewart, County Attorney, 295; 
Thomas Playford, Probate Judge, 172; 
W. II. riders, Prol>ate Judge, 125; Su- 



peiiiitendent of Schools, Peter Kirby, A. 

2i)5: Jesse E. Evans, to till vacancy in Lewis Allen. .lames Akins. 

oilice of Cou.itv Sm-veyoi-, previously W. F. Aderhold, .John Albach, 

lilled bv II. D. Preston, 2S0 voles: for W. -I. Andrews, D.cV.I.H. Alexander, 

County Bonds of r:2,n(!0 fo build O.unty Thomas A iknis, U.S. .\^Miew, 
.Tail, 173 for, 83 against. ^ .lohn Archibald. 

April27,18(i7, Board meet in;4- decided \'- 

the matter of allowinj,^ the people of 1^- •!■ IVyce, ^^^^''/'IV.".?' ' 

Osase county to vote on the Santa Fc L'^uisa Branet t, Kobe) t Baud, 

Ti bond proposition, SUO.ono. .Tune C. D. Bush, ^'-l"';!;:;, ""'"^' 

15, 18(17, election was held, lin; for; 123 -Uine i.. i?each, N. M. Blan } , 

a-ainst, majority 73; total vote, 31!) •'; 'J; 1;"^''' --;. '^^^ 

This would make the white population ';• ;■ l^or and, ^- ^;/; '•^':' 

of Osaoe countv about Um. It N^as W.lham Bryant, Sa.ah K Bu.sh, 

more than that July 10, 1S(U). Peti- Alfred Baxter, . '. Be.Ty 

tions from several parties all over the M:ut rook, " ,. , , '^ ; ;. 

county induced the Board to divide the • • W- Brown, ' »' V f^, ;'^ ' ' 

county into six municipal townships. Lewis Behymer, ' •; • ^ J; "' 

The t?wo from Shawnee county, Bur Ilemy N. Bishop, > . 

lincvame and Ridjreway, seem to remain S. 1 . Iishop, J^/'V, ' . ""• 

the same, 0x12 miles each in size Su- B. 1 Bet^^er, V , A v ui..,- 

perior is 'cut oif in length to accom- Thomas Bell, . oseph l.s .Ide., 

modate Valley Brook, but made wider. R. V. Becke , M • • Beck .s. 

The southwest part of the county had A. II I . Bats> , . 1 . 1 • B. kh, 

for one year the name Swan Pviver; -lacob Blanden, . .1 • Bass, 

im Arvonia. The southeast part of C;aleb Beckes, an.es Irownlee, 

thecounty hasA.ency,abi,towr.hip, ^^];:^^ ; i ^;,,,,, 

10x11 miles square, and A alley Brook »^- ^ • '7,^'^^;' ', 

tock in all south of Bid.^way to A.^cncy. eoi-e Bratton. . oseph A Btall, 

T will sive the names of settlers in C- !>• "«1^: ^^ / "^^ 

A^encv township, 1871, some 800 or -'ohn Bennm, M ( • aces, 

more, "in future history. I will ffive ''^'"^^^ ^l *'"'"'•• 

f "';;"-'- s'lT-^sii;"::"';:::: x : c:;i:;:: \:L \z2^ 

tor the years 18(„,- (.(,, usin« the ass< ss ^ ,^_ ^,,.^^.,^,_ ,,^ Christenden, 

"'■^^' ^■^'^^•'^- ^. Sarah S. Custard, .lohn ("ollins, 

COPY OF ASSESSMENT BOLL OF ifl-J^^^^^^-'^^^'" '-^'l; '';";;;'' ^'^'^ 
BITBLINGAMETOWN- T. S. Clelaud, (j ^ • ^'7' 

SHIP FOB 18.;.K Abralmm Cramer, S.y Clayton, 

F 11. Uaytoj), E. .1 (^urtis, 
Made by .1. A. Blanden. assessor. Norman < urtis, .lohn 1 omestoek, 
The iiames show who were identilied W. A. (^o/ine, B. F. ("handler, 

with Osa^ie County forty years a^,'o- .John Q Cowee. J. C. (\uune. 
Drawn from Countv Ilecords by V. B. William Crai-, S. B.( anni 1, 

T Kioc. <; A Co/ine. S. O. Crumb. 

Green, .Tune, lOOd: ^u ^\.y u/.mk. 



Osage County, N E ith and N, With 

^•^e. 12, 15, Ki, 320 acres, worth $ao 

■I- M. Chambers. 

•iosiah Drew, Sanh P t^,.^ 

Mr« p T^ isciianji. Drew, 

Mrs E.Densmore, Wm. Y. Drew, 

Bit T"^' J^Jin Dennison, 
Edwi"^^°^' George Daftin, 

Edward Dorris, Harrison Dubois, 

M t .Defenbaugh, Daniel Donavan' 
W^ham Dickson, James Dixon, ' 
EC. Dodge, Charles Dickenson 

CathenneDicke'sn Jonathan Dickson 

E. 
A Eaton, gamuel Earnest 

Wilham Eckhart, J. E Evens 

Frederic Erbdrink,LiviEmpie,' 
John Emett. 

r. h. Fairchilds, s. V. Fevor 

Jesse Fletcher, c. W. Fisl. ' 

W W, Fi.h, „. L. Zu, 

Ferry Bros, Ema,„,el Finn, 

fjy- O. B. Ficklin, 

■rere^iah'Scs. ISiSr*' 
S A. Fairchild. 

Frank Gobel, Henry Gardner, 

p ^- G'-ii-dner, Drayton Gillett 

George Golden, William Golden 

Thomas Gillick, T. W. Gideon 

James Gilchrist, L. E. G.rsuck, 

AWHVu'l' ^^^^'-^^-^-^-Gar'dner, 

AJvia Gibbs, 11. jvi. Qjg^jj 

T. B. Gamble, d G Grisw^ld, 
I- Guise 

Samuel Heizer ttoh, tx 

Wm DTTnv r^r^o "'^"^'^^y Harrison, 

Wm.D,IIarns,658acresaboutthe"110'- 
Simon Hawk, m j, jj.j, 

P • ^- iruston, William J. Jiarvev 



EC. Harris, John Hooker 

Wilham Howard, Frederick Ho'uck 
George Hoover, G.Hanson, ' 

J'p R^?'"' ^ '' Hopkins, 
Divif] Rn ' ^hraham Hoover, 

Mt:\ Xr rf-,."oward,' 
A A 'TT ^ ' ''• G- C. Iieise, 
A A.Hederstrom,J. iJiTcdges, 
G.W. Hoover. R.M.Hoggatt, 

F W R,n ?; ^™'''''' Hevender. 
J^.W.Hulscutter. A. N.ITulburt 
Abam C. Hill. 
I 
E.P. IngersoU, J. H. Increrson 
Indiana City fSoc 4 i--/?^ .. ' 
worth $400.) ^ ■*' ^''' l-'^' •^-•' acres, 

J. 

7ol"/°^'"'°"' ^^'-^O-Jarboe, 

-^osiah.iennings, H L. Jones, 

C. J. Johnson, Thomas Johnson 

Harrison Jones, John Johnson ' 

Peter Kirby, Fred J. Kaney 

Jeremiah Kellogg. John Xisler, 

R.E.]vn-kpatTick,0 A.Kimball, 
George Kinnear, Conrad Koch. 

William Levap, Andrew Lind, 
I. H Lescher, Jacob Langley. 
C.C.Linn, S.W.Leslie. 

M, 

Mrs.LC.M-Collom, William Martin 
McCoy & Walter, M. F. Marple 
— Mollohan, Jet xVJiHer, 
D. P Mitchell, August Myer, 

f'-'''llf' Edm Merkley 

J. S Matthews, j. r. Mead. 

b. A. Mccormick, .Joseph McC^leaster 

Martha McGee. Anna Mc(;e ' 

JohnMcMaster. D L, Marce, 

ThosT.McComas, John Mason, 

1. B.Morgan, David McMaster. 

JP M^p';, <' M. Montgomerv, 

J- I.. McCabe, r. s McCalx>, 

Joseph Miles, Mc-uek 

Montgomery Bros.,John A. Meslei^, 



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"The Old Sauk Indian Quenemo." 

This is a chapter from the fore part of Vol. 1, "Early Days in Kan- 
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It gives the history as far as possible of a blanket Indian by name 
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an Indian village known to the early whites as "Pequatting," but a few years 
later as Milan, Erie Co., Ohio. He seems to have remained there with his 
Sauk father and Ottawa Indian mother until he was at least 15 or 18, when 
he started on the "Indian Trail" ahead of civilization, Mich., Wis., Minn., 
Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma claiming him by turns as a ward of the Nation 
through his whole lifetime of 75 years. 

Those constant imigrations to keep ahead of civilization with his tribe. 
At last the poor old Indian, full of years, poor and almost homeless lies 
down and dies, and is buried on the banks of Deer Creek, two miles south 
of the Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma. 25 years later the author travel- 
ing the road by thei'e observes that the farmer with his plow has leveled the 
Indians' graves, the trees, the thickets and hollows into one big cornfield. 
Back to Nature Quenemo's ashes had gone and this memorial the monu- 
ment to his memory. 

"CHILDREN OF THE FOREST." A blanket Indian then, but now 
with white man's dress and advantages of school with good large annuities 
we hardly know those of Indian blood in our midst who have adopted so 
completely our ways. What changes a century can make. 

Also in the Quenemo Indian pamphlet is given one of my Pioneer 
Narratives. That of Henry Hudson Wiggans who came to Kansas, a young 
married man, in Nov. 1855 and took a claim adjoining the Ottawa Reser- 
vation. Here he erected a blacksmith shop and the Indians soon found out 
that he was a master hand to repair guns. He gradually learned their lan- 
guage and in 1863 was appointed the Gov't blacksmith to the Sac and Foxes 
at Quenemo. 

The history of his Scotch-Irish Ancestry is so very interesting, dat- 
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narrative. Mr. H. H. Wiggan's portrait is given and no one will regret 
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